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filmage. 

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la  derniire  page  qui  comporte  une  tulle 
empreinte. 

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cas:  le  symbols  — ^signifie  "A  SUIVRE".  le 
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MEMOIE 


OF 


COL.  JONATHAN  EDDY, 


OF 


EDDmGTOE",    ME. 


WITH  SOME  ACCOUNT  OP 


THE   EDDT   FAMILY, 


AND   OP 


The  Early  Settlers  on  Pexobscot  River. 


BT 


JOSEPH    W.    porter, 

BURLINGTON,  ME. 


AUGUSTA: 

SPRAGUE,  OWEN  A  NASH,  PEINTERS. 
1811. 


MEMOIR. 


Jonathan  Eddy,  l)orn  in  172(5,  was  the  son  of  Eloazer  and 
Elizabeth  (Cobb)  Eddy  of  that  part  of  the  town  of  Norton, 
now  Mansfiekl,  Mass.-  His  father  dying  while  he  was  under 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  Jonathan  Lincoln  and  John  An- 
drews were  appointed  Nov.  7,  1739,  guardians  of  Jonathan 
and  of  Obadiah  and  Oliver,  his  brothers,  and  to  "hind  them 
out  as  apprentices  until  they  come  of  age."  June  11,  1748, 
the  guardians'  account  was  rendered,  and  the  estate  of  their 
father  w^as  settled.  From  this  time  to  1755  Jonathan  appears 
to  have  been  in  Norton.  At  that  time  he  was  an  officer  in 
Col.  Winslov:'s  Regiment  at  Nova  Scotia.  I  have  a  fragment 
of  an  order  book  in  his  own  hand-writing,  the  first  date  in 
which  is  June  22,  1755,  and  then  to  July  12,  1755,  Camp  at 
Fort  Cumberland,  N.  S.  1  have,  thus  far,  searched  in  vain 
in  the  Mass.  Archives  for  nuister  rolls  of  his  company. 

In  1758,  he  enlisted  a  company  of  troops  for  the  War  in 
Canada,  under  the  following  commission  : 

"  Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay. 

By  Plis  Excellency  the  Governor  : 

I  do  herebj'  authorize  and  empower  Captain  Jonathan 
Eddy  to  beat  his  Drums  any  where  within  this  Province,  for 
inlisting  volunteers  for  His  Majesty's  service,  in  a  liegiment 
of  Foot,  to  be  forthwith  raised  and  put  under  the  command 
of  Officers  belonging  to  this  Provim^e  for  a  General  Invasion 
of  Canada  in  conjunction  with  the  Kings  British  Troops  and 
under  the  supreme  command  of  His  JNIajesty's  Commander  in 
Chief  in  America. 

And  the  Colouols,  Avith  the  other  officers  of  Regiments, 
within  this  Province,  are  hereby  conunanc'id  not  to  give  the 


said  Jonathan  Kddy  any  Obstruction  or  ^folcstation  herein  : 
l.iit  on  tlie  contrary  to  atl'ord  him  all  necessary  Encourage- 
ment and  Assistance  :  for  which  this  is  a  sufficient  Warrant. 

And  the  said  .lonalhan  Kddy  is  hereby  enjoined  on  I'ain  of 
my  highest  Displeasure,  to  retui-n  tlie  names  of  the  Men  he 
shall  inlist,  and  out  of  what  particular  Companies  and  licgi- 
ments  they  are  inlistcd,  to  Col.  William  Hrattle,  Adjutant 
General,  on  or  before  the  17th  day  of  April  next,  that  ho 
may  lay  the  same  before  Me. 

Given  under  My  Hand  at  Boston,  the  27th  Day  of  March, 
1758,  in  the  Thirty  First  year  of  His  Majesty's  lieign. 

Tii:  PowxAL." 

In  1 758  he  raised  a  company  for  the  Reduction  of  Canada, 
in  a  Regiment  under  the  command  of  Thomas  Doty,  Esquire. 

"A  .Muster  Roll  of  a  company  of  foot  in  his  ^Majesty's  ser- 
vice, under  the  command  of  Captain  Jonathan  P^Idy,  in  a 
Regiment  raised  by  the  Province  of  the  IMassachusetts  Ray 
for  the  Reduction  of  Canada,  whereof  Thomas  Doty,  Esquire, 
is  Colonel."     Time  of  service  from  Mar.  13th  to  Dec.   10; 

1758  : 

Joiiatl)ixnE(l(ly.E«(i..riii)t..Xorti)M.  TSiirtliolomt'wEurto.Piivato.Xorroii. 

TiinotlivStiiiidlcv.  LuMit..  Aitlclx.ro.Jolm  Hiick.  J'rivati'.  Gloiicostcr. 


Xoah  l{(>1)t'rsoii.  do        Norton.  Klijali  Harney, 

Ehcnczcr  (irovcr.  Ensign,        do        Sunmel  Blsho]), 


Sarn-t-nt,        do        Tliomas  Hnrton, 
do  do        Joseph  Isalcoin. 

do    Attlehoro.  Jeremiah  Hisliop. 
do        Norton.  Solomon  Hriggs, 

Corixiral,  do  Setli  Cook, 
do  Attlehoro.  Silas  Cook, 
do  do        Jonathan  Cattoll. 

do        Norton.  Stephen  Carpenter 
do  do        llezekiah  Capron, 

Drummer.      do        Joseph  Cuuunings,   do 


John  Kinj^'. 

James  (iilhert. 

Ehenezer  Swan, 

John  Penney, 

John  White, 

Amos  Sweet. 

Ellsha  May, 

John  Hri<;ii's. 

Amos  Newland, 

J'lisha  l?rij>-<rs, 

Friah  Atheiton.  Private.  Stonj^-hton.  neiijandn  Col(\ 

John  Allen.        Private,        Easton.  Abial  Dnnham, 

Dariet  Austin.  do  Norton.   Ichabod  I)o^';^et, 

Edward  Bahhit.        do  do        M.  Dogget, 

NelKMniah  Brings,   do  do 


do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
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do 
do 


do 
do 
do 
do 


Norton. 
Atthdjoro. 

do 

do 

do 
Norton. 

do 

do 

Attle1)oro. 

do 

do 

Taunton. 

Norton. 

Attlehoro. 

do 


A  part  of  the  Muster  Roll  is  missing  from  the  Miissachusutts  Arcliivos— from  D  down. 


In  tho  ciirly  part  of  ITf)!*  he  raised  a  company  in  ManslioM, 
Mass.,  an<l  vicinity,  tor  Col.  .Ios('j)h  Fryc's  H('<rinu'nt,  in 
Avliich  he  served  as  ('a[)tain  from  Ai)ril  2,  1759,  to  Sept.  30, 
17(10.  His  Order  I'look  from  April  2;U1,  H.VJ,  to  Dee.  aist, 
17.59,  T  have,  and  from  it,  on  <he  cover,  I  take  th«^  followinj^: 
'"April  lltli,  marched  from  home — (Manslield)  to  Landlord 
Kol)Sf)n's,  Ston^diton ;  12(ii  day,  to  Lient.  iJents,  Milton; 
l.'Mh  day,  to  Castle  ^^'iHiam,  and  received  onr  provision  for 
70  men,  it  heing  the  *  *  *  marehed  on.  We  went  on  hoard 
the  2l8t  day  of  Ai)ril,  and  drew  allowance  the  23d  day  Deto." 

The  Kegnlar  Order  Hook  1:  -gins  April  21st,  17.')9,  "This 
dav  Captains  Kddy,  Slocond),  Angierand  Cheever,  embarked 
on  r»oard  snndry  Trans[)orts  for  Fort  Cnmberland." 

"April  22(1.  Capt.  Eddy  having  a  3d  time  fni-nished  his 
company  Billeting  Roll,  went  on  shore  to  the  Castle  to  receive 
tlu!  IJilleting  money  ;  (before  we  departed  from  the  Castle  we 
were  sundry  times  mustered  by  the  (Jovernor  and  Col.  Bur- 
ton, attended  with  divers  other  regular  otHcers,  who  not  only 
revicAved  us  but  also  saw  that  every  man  was  proi)erly  accou- 
terred)  in  about  two  hours  the  Cajjtain  returned  from  the 
Castle,  and  brought  word  that  the  Billeting  would  be  brought 
on  board  some  time  this  Day." 

Ap.  24.  "This  morning  about  '•  o'clock,  we  and  the  whole 
fleet  made  sail  after  the  signal  made  from  the  Connnodore, 
Capt.  Cobb,  a  Sloop  of  H  guns.  Wind  S.,  the  people  in 
general  sea-sick,  and  made  very  Dirty  Work." 

Ap.  2.").     "Came  to  anchor  in  Casco  Bay." 

Ap.  28.  "PenuKpiidin  sight.  Served  back  allowance  of 
Rum  to  the  people." 

Ap.  29.     "  Monhagin  on  our  Starboard  side." 

May  1.  "This  day  at  noon,  observed  and  found  ourselves 
in  Lattitude  43 — 47,  one  degree  to  the  northward  of  Boston, 
the  Connnodore  and  8  more  of  onr  Fleet  astern  of  ns,  the 
rest  of  our  Fleet  we  imagine  to  have  put  into  Pemaquid." 

May  2.     "The  people  down  with  the  Measles." 


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AFiiy  3.     "CuTiK'  to  an  nndior  iit   i\  o'clock  in Buy, 

almost  l)ctNVCoii  tlu!  point  and  Islo  of  Holt." 

May  T).  "  At  (>  this  niorniiii;  canu!  too  at  Fort  Cuniborland, 
■went  ashore  and  Iodised  in  Barns,  the  Kcguhirs  being  in  pos- 
session of  the  Barracks." 

]May  !•.      "  7tli    U»'gnl:irs    left    the    Barracks   aboniinablo 

Dirty." 

May  23.  "Whereas  the  Itch  increases  among  the  soldiers 
of  this  garrison,  the  olHeers  are  earnestly  recommended  to 
procure!  Brimstone,  and  what  else  may  be  necessary  to  cure 
and  i)ut  a  stop  to  it." 

,lnn(;  17.  "Last  night  arrived  here.  Sloop  Sea  Plowcr, 
with  (lOAernment  stores  from  Boston.  Mr.  LivernKU'e  the 
Suttler,  KeV.  INfr.  Page,  Adjutant  Mr.  Wetherliead,  wee  on 
board." 

June  22.  "  This  evening  Elcazer  Everett  of  my  company 
died  after  a  long  indisposition." 

June  30.  "Divine  Service  to  be  attended  once  every 
Sunday  by  all  in  Garrison  not  on  Duty." 

July  1.  "This  day  entertained  with  a  discourse  by  Kev. 
Mr.  Page,  from  5th  chap.  St.  Luke's  Gospel  and  32d  verse. 
'Bhis  day  week  entertained  by  same  Mr.  Page  in  a  Discourse 
from  Jol),  30th  chap,  and  23d  verse." 

July  3.  "Rum  is  to  be  issued  to  the  troops  belonging  to 
the  province  of  Mass.  Bay,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon." 

July  7.  Order  from  ('ol.  Frye :  "Hum  will  not  defend 
the  Soldiers  from  the  inclemency  of  yf'  Aveather  nor  the 
attacks  of  Stinging  insects,  with  which  this  country  very 
plentifully  abounds,  as  clothes  Avould,  and  besides  too  much 
strong  water  intoxicates  the  Brain." 

July  9.  "This  morning  about  9  o'clock  Captain  Phips 
arrived  here  from  Halifax,  and  brought  news  that  the  Fleet 
sailed  from  Lcwisburgh  June  12th,  with  Mr.  Allen  and  sun- 
dry other  passengers." 

July  21.  "  Orders  :  Men  shall  not  cat  their  molasses  with 
their  victuals  but  brew  it  into  Beer." 


July  20.  "Entertained  to-day  by  Mr.  Pago  with  a  Dis- 
coiirHc  from  Exodus,  chap.  20  and  7th  verse  :  Thou  shall  not 
take  y<'  name  of  the  Lord  thy  (rod  in  vain  for  the  Lord  will 
not  hold  liiin  <!;uilllesH  that  taketli  His  name  in  Vain." 

Sept.  20.  Orders:  "All  non  Commissioned  OfHcors  and 
jn-ivate  soldiers  that  go  out  shooting  by  vertue  of  the  Titlcets 
dated  the  10th  instant,  are  Daily  to  bring  all  the  Game  they 
kill  in  the  Fort  1  arade,  and  what  of  it  they  dont  want  to  eat 
themselves  shall  be  exposiMl  to  sale  in  y  following  manner : 
1st  day  lh(^  Cimnnanding  Oflicers  and  Captains  shall  be  first 
hi  purchasing ;  2d  day  the  Subb's  shall  be  first,  and  so  on 
from  day  to  day,  changing  the  preference  as  aforesaid." 

Sept.  30.  "  Officers  and  private  soldiers  having  been  ac- 
customed to  gameing  at  cards  in  the  Barracks,  such  gameing 
is  forbidden  and  to  be  suppressed." 

Oct.  21.  "Yesterday  in  the  afternoon  arrived  sloops  from 
Eastwi-rd,  and  brought  the  agreeable  news  of  Canady's  De- 
struction." 

Oct.  22.  Orders  :  "All  Sutlers  arc  forbidden  to  sell  any 
Spirituous  Liquors  to  any  of  the  Garrison  thi.i  Day.  At  12 
o'clock  to-day  7(5  great  guns  were  fired,  as  well  for  the  King's 
Coronation  day  as  the  joyful  news  of  our  success  at  Canady, 
at  which  time  every  officer  on  the  beat  of  the  General  met 
upon  the  Fort  parade  and  Drank  his  Majesty's  good  health, 
&c.,  dureing  the  fireing,  after  which  they  sang  God  save  the 
King;  and  they,  with  the  whole  Garrison  who  were  all 
assenibhd,  save  those  on  duty  and  sick,  gave  three  cheers,  at 
which  time  20  Gallons  of  Kum  Avas  made  in  good  T(  ddy  and 
given  to  the  Soldiery.  At  night  about  6  o'clock,  from  the 
alarm  posts,  every  man  discharged  his  Firelock  three  times, 
except  some  that  did  not  go  off,  and  then  gave  three  cheers, 
which  Avith  illuminating  all  the  windows  in  the  Garrison 
belonging  to  the  oflBcers,  concluded  the  Day." 

Oct.  31.  "This  morning  Mr.  Page  and  Mr.  Livermore 
sailed  for  Boston  w^th  Capt.  Innis." 

Dec.  31.  "Future  orders  Continued  and  Carryed  into  a 
new  Book  begun  January  1st,  1760." 


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IMuHtcr    I..0II   of   Captain    Jonathan    Eddy's   Company    in 

Colont'l   .loscpli  Fryo'rt   Kc^'iincnt    iVom  April   2,   175'J,   to 

Sept.  ;U),  17<;0,  ut  Fort  Cuinlicrland  : 

Ji.Hiali  Kli'K.  Hergeiiiit.  .I<»liii  Knapp, 

JohIiiIi  IVrry,         Corporul.  Most',«  Knapp, 

liliai.oil  |)(.f;>,'ctt.  "                       Zi'l>liaiiiaii  I,aiir, 

Alexander  Foster.  "                       Nelieniiah  Mneolu, 

Kliphalet  llrijrifH.  Dniminor.  Menianilii  Tiewls. 

I'otcr  Uoitkihrt,  Men.Mii  M..r;e, 

Oavlil  Austin,  Zeplianiali  Morso, 

.I(.shna  Austin.  Jii«'<»'>  Newlaiul, 

Elijah  Barrows,  Joseph  Newland, 

•John  Bates,  Tl'onias  \ason, 

(; Hrinlal,  Nalliauiel  Nason, 

Samuel  Cobb,  •'<'1">  K<>biii*<>n, 

Samuel  Day,  I'i'vi.l  Hobinson, 

John  Eddy,  A-  Hobinson, 

Isaac  Fisher,  Robert  IJaiidall, 

Joiui.  Toleott,  'l"'"'^-  Sweetlaud, 

Z.  Frauklln,  PenthM.st  Stanley, 

John  Folett.  Amos  Skinner, 

Joslah  Cillbert,  J'»l>"  Salmon, 

Job  (Jllbert.  Danhd  Toirey. 

Stephen  Geary,  ISenjamiu  Tinf,'ley, 

John  Gould,  Elipha'  i  Thorpe, 

Jaeob(;ould,  William  Wetherell, 

I'eter  Hoitkins,  Elijah  Wetherell, 

William  Hart,  Silas  Wehnan,  (?) 

Samuel  IIiiMt,  ^I"**''**  ^^''"''N 

Eleazer  Faxon.  Z.  AVatkins. 

Abiel  Knapp, 

Province  of  the  Massachnsetts  Bay, 

1701.  To  Jonathan  Eddy,                     Dr. 

£        8.        d. 

To   20  days'  expense  allowed   to   make   up   this 

Koll,  l-fi 1     10     0 

"    3  days'  travel  from  Norton  to  Boston  and  back 

again  at  48 ^     12     0 

"    20  days'  his  not  charged  in  Koll  Avhen  making 

it  up 6       8     7 

£8     10  07 

Boston.  Feb.  3,  1761.     Errors  Excepted. 

JoKA  Eddy. 


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in 
to 


K 


Tho  Tiioutcimnts  in  the  Coinpiiny  wta-o  probably  Mucom- 
bor,  Hoydon  und  Ltu)niird. 

Above  is  the  IVIuMtcr  Roll  of  those  who  served  up  to  tho 
time  of  tinal  diHchiirj^c^ — ;U)  Sept.  17(10. 

I  Hnd  in  dipt.  Kddy's  Order  Hook  the  niinieH  of  others 
who  were  of  his  Company,  viz:  dohn  Horn  drowned  April 
;U),  17.')!>,  on  the  way  out.  Klea/er  Kven-tt  died.  "Jolui 
lba^'<f  of  njy  (Jo.  went  home  Nov.  lid.'  "  Ser;r.  Witherell, 
Abiel  Drake,  donah  (lay,  Kdward  Fisher,  Avent  home  Nov.  12, 
17.')!>."  "SerfTcant  (iiil)ert,  Kdward  Hlandiard,  Stei)hen 
Franklin,  Frd.  liiehardnon  and  benjamin  Hall,  went  lunne 
Dec.  lllh,  17.')!!.  17r»<»,  N'^v.  12,  says  "David  Kobinwon 
went  home  without  leave,"  bi.t  he  api)ear.s  to  have  returned, 
as  hi.s  name  wan  on  Muster  i'oll  when  the  Comi)any  \as 
paid  oil'. 

After  his  discharge  in  17()0,  he  remainecl  at  Norton  until 
17(i;5,  when  he  was  in  Norton,  eallinji-  iiiniselfof  C'nndu-rland, 
N.  S.,  in  a  deed,— havinjj:  emigrated  with  his  family  about 
that  time.  He  bought  hinds  at  Fort  Cumberland,  some  of 
which  are  now  in  possession  of  his  descendants,  (1^7(1.)  lie 
was  Deputy  Provost  INIarshal  and  held  other  olKces  there, 
remaining  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  Kevoluticniary  AVar— 
when  he  tied  to  the  United  States,  leaving  his  family  behind 
—and  March  27,  1770,  he  was  at  (nm.  Washingtoirs  Head 
Quarters  at  Cambridge.  See  Washington's  letter  to  Con- 
gress, dated  March  27,  177(1.     Extract : 

"  I  beg  leave  to  transmit  to  you  the  copy  of  a  petition  from 
the  Inhabitants  of  Nova  Scotia,  brought  to  me  bv  ,'on.^than 
Eddy,  mentioned  therein,  who  is  now  here  with  an  Acadian; 
from  which  it  ai)i)i'ars  that  they  are  in  a  distressed  situation, 
and  from  :Mr.  Eddy's  account  they  are  exceedingly  apprehen- 
sive that  they  will  be  reduced  to  the  disagreeable  alternative 
of  taking  up  arms  and  joining  our  enemies  or  of  fleeing  their 
country,  unless  they  can  be  protected  against  their  insults 
and  oppressions.  lie  says  that  their  committees  think  many 
salutary  and  valuable  consequences  would  be  derived  from 


five  or  six  himclrod  men  ho'mg  sent  there,  as  it  would  not  only 
quiet  the  minds  of  tlie  people  from  the  iinxiety  and  uneasiness 
they  are  now  filled  with,  and  cnal;^e  them  to  take  a  part  in 
behalf  of  the  eolonies,  but  be  the  means  of  preventing  the 
Indians,  of  which  there  are  a  good  many,  from  taking  the 
side   of  the   Government,  and   the   ministerial    troops   from 
getting  such  supplier  of  provisions  from  them  as  they  have 
done.     How  far  these  good  purposes  would  be  answered  if 
such  a  force  were  sent  as  they  ask  for,  it  is  impossible  to  de- 
termine in  the  present  uncertain  state  of  things,  for  if  the 
army  from  Boston  is  going  to  Ilalitax  as  reported  by  them 
before  their  departure,  that  or  a  nnich  more  consideral)le  force 
wo-rd  be   of  no  avail;  if  not,  and  they  possess  the  friendly 
disposition  to  our  cause  suggested  in  the  petition  and  declared 
hy  Mr.  Eddy,  it  might  be  of  great   service  unless  another 
body  of  troops  should  be   sent  thither  by  administration  too 
powerful  for  them  to  oppose,  &c.,  &c. 
I  have  the  Honor  to  be,  &c." 

Capt.  Eddy  went  to  I'hiladelphia  ;  but  Congress  having  more 
on  its  hands  than  it  well  knew  how  to  attend  to,  declined 
to  give  him  any  assistance.  Upon  his  return  he  called  on  his 
cousin,  John  Eddy,  tJien  living  at  Chatham,  Conn.  AVilliam- 
son's  History  of  Maine,  vol.  2,  page  451,  says :  "But  Jona- 
than Eddy,  a  native  of  Norton,  Mass.,  who  had  resided  ten 
years  in  the  vicinity  of  Cumberland  at  the  head  of  Chigneald 
Bay  and  Avas  Sheriff  of  the  county,  represented  to  the  General 
Court  that  the  garrison  had  ])een  lessened  from  time  to  time, 
till  the  number  remaining  was  only  sutHcieiit  to  take  care  of 
the  artillery  and  military  stores  ;  and  that  in  his  o})inion  it 
might  be  easily  taken  by  a  sm'all  force.  Though  he  in  fact 
received  no  aid  nor  direct  encouragement,  yet  he  returned 
and  projected  a  plan  for  taking  the  fort.  To  ascertain  its 
true  condition,  he  sent  Capt.  Zebulon  Rowe,  who  visited 
and  thort)ugh]y  examined  it  without  exciting  suspicion.  Eddy 
next  had  the  address  by  persuasive  threats  and  promises  of 
reward'^  to  raise  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  men." 


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"Williamson  is  in  error  in  relation  to  the  aitl  from  Massaehn- 
setts,  as  Col.  Ecldy^  hy  order  of  the  General  Conrt,  Sept.  5, 
1776,  then  sitting  at  WatertoAvn,  received  from  the  Connnis- 
sary  General  of  Massaehnsctts  supplies  of  anmiunition  and 
provisions. 

[See  Appendix  A.] 

Col.  John  Allan,  a  refugee  from  Nova  Scotia,  and  after- 
wards Superintendent  of  the  Eastern  Indians,  on  his  way 
from  Cumberland  to  ^Nfachias,  met  Col.  Eddy  on  board  a 
schooner  with  twenty-eight  men,  Aug.  13,  in  Machias  Bay, 
and  "endeavored  to  induce  Col.  Eddy  to  abandon  his  design, 
but  without  effect."  Kidder  His.  of  Rev.  War  in  Eastern 
Maine,  page  12,  says  that  Col.  Eddy  was  impressed  Avith  the 
belief  that  he  should  and  must  be  successful,  and  proceeded 
on  his  way  and  made  the  attack.  His  official  report  and  also 
his  letter  to  Col.  Gorham,  I  give,  copied  from  Kidder  His., 
pp.  67,  68,  69,  70,  71,  72,  73,  U. 

Col.  Eddy's  Letter  of  January,  5,  1777. 

To  the  Hon.  Council  &  House  of  Representatives  of  the  State 

of  ^lassachusetts  Bay : 

I  have  endeavored  to  inform  your  Honors  of  some  part  of 
my  Proceedings  since  my  Departure  from  Boston. 

I  Mt  the  long  Avharf  in  Boston  together  with  j\[r.  Roav  and 
]Mr.  How,  and  iirrived  at  Newbury  the  second  Day,  Avhere 
we  Chartered  a  small  Vessel  to  carry  us  to  Machias,  at  which 
Place  we  arrived  (after  :Many  Unfortunate  Accidents)  in 
about  three  weeks  from  the  time  of  our  setting  out.  Durin<i' 
my  Stay  at  Machias  I  met  with  Col.  Shaw,  by  whose  Eavor  I 
obtained  Capt.  West  and  several  other  good  Men,  to  the 
amount  of  al)out  Twenty,  to  join  me  in  the  Expedition  against 
Fort  Cumberland.  Then  Proceeded  to  Passamaquoddy  where 
I  was  joined  by  a  few  more ;  frt)m  thence  to  the  River  St. 
John's,  and  went  up  the  same  about  sixty  Miles  to  the  Inhab- 
itants, whom  I  found  almost  universally  to  be  hearty  in  the 
Cause, — and  joined  us  with  1  Capt.,  1  Lieut,  and  Twenty-fivo 
Men,  as  also   16  Indians ;   so  that  our  whole  Force  now. 


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ainoiintiHl  to  Seventy  two  Men,  and  with  this  Party  I  set  off 
tor  Cumberland  in  ^\'hale  Boat.s  and  Canoes,  and  standing-  up 
the  Bay  arrived  in  a  few  Days  at  Sliepody  in  the  sd  County. 
At  Shepody  we  found  and  took  Ca[)t.  A\'allser  im([  a  Party  of 
thirteen  ]\Ien,  wlio  had  l)e('n  stationed  there  by  Col.  (Jorham, 
Connnander  of  the  Garrison  at  Cumberland,  for  the  Purpose 
of  getting-  Intelligence,  &c.     Thence  wi;  Proceeded  to  Mom- 
rancook,  and  there  had  a  Conference  with  the  French,  who 
Eeadjiy  joined  us,  although  ihvy  saw  the  Aveakness  of  our 
l*arty.     We  then  marched  12  ]\Iiles  through  the  woods  to 
Sackville,  and  there  were  met  ))y  the  Conunittee,  who  Ex- 
pressed their  Uneasiness  at  seeing  so  few  of  us,  and  those 
unprovided  Avith  Artillery.     Nevertheless,  hoping  that  Col. 
Shaw  Avould  soon  come  to  our  A^.sistancc  with  a  Kcunforce- 
ment,  they  unanimously  joined  us.     The  same  Night  I  sent 
off  a  small  Detachment  Avho  marclied  about  1 2  ]Miles  throuo-h 
very  l»ad  Ivoads  to  AVestcock,  and  there  took  a  Schooner  in 
Aulack   Kiver,  loaded  Avith  Apples,   Cyder,  English  Goods, 
&c.,  to  the  Amoimt   of  about  £300,  but  tinding  afterwards 
that  she  Avas  the  Property  of  ^fr.  Hall  of  Annai)olis,  avIio  is  ii 
good  Friend  to  the  Cause  of  Libei-ty,  I  discharged  her.     I 
afterwards  sent  another  Boat  Load  of  Men,  as  a  Iveiuforce- 
ment  to  the  tirst  Party,  making  together  about  .">()  :M('n,  in 
Order  to  take  a  Sloop  Avhich  lay  on  the  Flats  l)elow  the  Foi't, 
loaden  with  Provisions  and  other  Necessaries  for  tlie  Garri- 
son.     After  a  Difficult   March,   they   arrived   opposite    the 
Sloop,  on   board  of  which   was  a  Guard  of  1    Sei-gt.  and  12 
men,   a\  ho  had   they  tird  at  our  People,  nnist   have   alarmed 
the  Garrison  in  such  a  manner  as  to  have  brought  them  on 
their  Backs.     However  our  men  rushed  Kesolutely  toAvards 
the  Sloop  up  to  their  knees  in  mud,  which  made  such  a  noise 
as  to  alarm  the  Gentry,  who  hailed  them  and   innnediately 
called  the  Serg't  of  the  (Juard:  The  Serg't   on  coming  up. 
Ordered  his  Men  to  tire,  ])ut  Avas   innnediately  told  by  Mr. 
RoAv  that  if  they  tired  one  (Jun,  Every  Man  of  them  should 
l»(!  put  to  Death,  Avhich  so  fi-ightened   the  poor  Devils  that 
th(y  surrendered  without  tiring  a  Shot,  although  our  People 


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Could  not  hoard  her  v/ithout  the  Assistance  of  the  Conquered, 
who  let  down  Ropes  to  our  Men  to  get  up  by.  By  this  Time 
the  Day  broke  and  the  Kest  of  our  party  made  to  their 
Assistance  in  the  Schooner  aforementioned  and  some  Boats. 
In  the  mean  Time  Came  down  several  Parties  of  Soldiers 
from  the  Fort,  not  knowing  the  sloop  was  taken,  as  fast  as 
they  came  were  made  Prisoners  by  our  Men,  and  order'd  on 
board;  Among  the  Kest,  Capt.  Barron,  Engineer  of  the 
Garrison,  and  ^Mr.  Eagleson,  who  may  be  truly  Called  the 
Pest  of  Society,  and  by  his  unseasonable  Drunkenness  the 
evening  Ix'fore,  prevented  his  own  Escape,  and  occasioned 
his  being  taken  in  Arms.  The  Sloop  now  beginning  to  float 
and  the  Fog  breaking  away,  we  were  discovered  by  the  Gar- 
rison, Avlio  observing  our  Sails  loose,  thought  at  tirst  it  Avas 
done  only  with  an  Intent  to  dry  them,  but  soon  Perceiving 
that  Ave  Avere  under  Avay,  tired  several  Cannon  shot  at  us,  and 
marched  doAvn  a  Party  of  (50  Men  to  attack  us,  but  Ave  Avere 
at  such  distance  that  all  their  Shot  Avas  of  no  Consequence. 

We  then  sailed  to  Fort  LaAvrence,  another  Part  of  the 
Township,  and  there  landed  Part  of  the  Stores  on  board  the 
Sloop  to  Enable  us  to  attack  the  Garrison. 

Having  left  a  small  Guard  on  board  the  Sloop  to  secure  the 
Prisoners,  I  marched  the  Kemainder  to  Cumberland  side  of 
the  KiA'er  and  Kncanq)ed  Avithiu  a))()ut  one  mile  of  the  Fort, 
and  Av.'is  there  joined  by  a  Number  of  the  Inhabitants,  so  that 
our  Aviiole  force  was  aow  about  180  Men,  but  having  seA'eral 
outposts  to  guard,  and  many  Prisoners  to  take  Care  of,  the 
Number  that  Remained  in  the  Camp  did  not  Exceed  80  men; 
I  now  thouglit  Proper  to  invest  the  Fort,  and  for  this  Purpose 
sent  a  sunnnons  to  tlie  Connnauding  Officer  to  surrender,  (a 
Copy  of  which,  together  Avith  his  AnsAver,  I  have  Enclosed.) 

Upon  Col.  Gorliam's  Refusal  to  surrender  we  attempted  to 
storm  the  Fort  in  the  Night  of  the  12th  Nov'r  Avith  our  scal- 
ing Ladders  and  other  Accoutrements,  but  tindingthe  Fort  to 
be  stronger  than  Ave  imagined,  (occasioned  1  y  late  Repairs) 
Ave  thought  tit  to  ReliiKiiiish  our  Desjoii  i\i'tor  a  heavv  tirinf 
from  their  Great  Guns  and  snudl  Arms,  Avith  Intermission  for 


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2  hours,  which  ivs  Sustained  without  any  Loss,  (Except  one 
Indian  being  wounded)  who  behaved  very  galhmtly,  and  Re- 
treated in  good  Order  to  our  Camp. 

Our  whole  Force  in  this  Attack  Consisted  of  about  80  Men, 
while  the  Enemy  were  100  strong  in  the  Fort,  as  I  learned 
since  from  some  deserters  who  came  over  to  us :  a  greater 
number  than  we  imagined.  I  must  needs  acquaint  your 
Honors  that  Never  Men  behaved  better  than  ours  during  the 
engagement— never  flinching  in  the  midst  of  a  furious  Can- 
nonade from  the  Enemy. 

In  this  Posture  Ave  Continued  a  Number  of  Days,  and 
totally  cut  off  their  Communications  with  the  Country,  Keep- 
ing thorn  closely  block'd  u^)  within  the  Fort,  which  we  Ex- 
pected to  take  in  a  little  Time  by  the  Assistance  of  a  Rein- 
forcement from  Westward.  In  the  mean  Time,  on  the  27th 
Nov'r,  arrived  in  the  Bay  a  Alan  of  War,  from  Halifax,  with 
a  Reinforcement  for  the  Garrison,  consisting  of  near  400  Men, 
and  landed  on  that  and  the  day  following. 

Nov.  30.  The  Enemy  to  the  Nunil)fcr  of  200  Came  out  in 
the  Night  by  a  round  about  March,  got  partly  within  our 
Guards,  notwithstanding  Ave  had  Scouts  out  all  Night,  and 
about  Sunrise  furiously  Rushed  upon  the  Barracks  Avhere  our 
Men  Avere  quartered,  AA^ho  had  but  just  Time  Enough  to 
Escape  out  of  the  Houses  and  run  into  the  Bushes  Avliere, 
(notAvithstanding  the  Surprise  in  Avhich  Ave  Avcre)  our  Men 
Ivilled  and  Avound(!d  15  of  the  Enemy  while  Ave  lost  only  one 
man,  Avho  Avas  Killed  in  the  Camp. 

In  the  midst  of  such  a  Tunuilt  they  at  length  proceeded 
about  G  Miles  into  the  Country  to  the  Place  Avliere  they 
imagined  our  stores,  &c.,  to  be,  aud  in  the  Course  of  their 
March  burnt  12  Houses  and  12  Barns,  in  some  of  Avhicli  the 
greater  Part  of  our  Stores  were  deposited.  In  this  Dilemma, 
My  Party  being  greatly  Aveakened  by  sending  off  many  for 
Guards  Avith  the  Prisoners,  &c.,  and  our  Stores  boinjr  Con- 
sumed,  it  Avas  thought  Proper  by  the  Committee  that  avo 
should  Retreat  to  St.  Johns  River,  and  there  make  a  stand 
till  we  could  have  some  certain  Intelligence  from  the  West- 


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ward,  which  we  hope  we  shall  have  in  a  short  time  hy  the 
Favor  of  the  Committee,  who  are  gone  forwards.     And  as  it 
appears  to  be  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  ot  Cumberland 
and  St.  Johns  River  that  I  should  Remain  here,  I  am  deter- 
mined to  make  a  Stand  at  this  Place  till  I  am  drove  off,  which 
I  believe  will  not  be  Easily  done,  unless  the  Enemy  should 
send  a  Force  from  Halifax  by  Water  on  Purpose  to  subdue 
this  Settlement,  as   I  am  continually  Reinforced  by  People 
from  Cumberland  and  the  Neighboring  Counties,  so  that  I 
believe  av(!  shall  be  able  to  Repulse  any  Party  that  may  be 
sent  from  the  Garrison  at  Cumberland,  though  I  imagine  we 
shall  not  be  troubled  by  any  Irruption  from  them  this  Winter, 
as  the  Reinforcement  is  chiefly  gone,  having  left  only  about 
200  Men  in  the  Fort,  and  those  in  a  bad  Condition  for  the 
want  of  Clothing  ;  and  if  200  men  could  be  sent  us  by  Land 
this  winter  we  could  Reduce  the  Garrison  by  cutting  off  their 
Supplies  of  wood,  Avhich  they  are  obliged  to  go  8  or  9  Miles 
for  through  a  Country  full  of  small  Spruce,  Fir  and  such  like 
Wood,  Consequently  very  Convenient  for  us  to  lay  an  Am- 
bush, as  we  are  perfectly  acquainted  and  the  Enemy  Strangers 
thereto ;  and  this  your  Honors  may  easily  Conceive,  as  we 
Destroyed  a  Number  of  Houses,  the  Property  of  Friends  to 
each  Side,  which  lay  adjacent  to  the  Fort,  and  the  Command- 
ing Oflicer  having  given  orders  to  pull  them  down  and  carry 
the  Timl)er  into  the  Fort  for  Firing,  the  Committee  ordered 
me  to  Prevent  it  by  firing  them,  which  I  did  accordingly,  and 
left  them  destitute  of  anything  to  burn  within  some  Miles. 
On  this  River  are  a  considerable  Number  of  Indians,  who  are 
universally  hearty  in  the  Cause,  16  of  whom,  together  with 
the  Governor  Ambrose,  accomi)anied  me  in  the  Expedition 
and  behaved  most  gallantly,  but  are  a  little  uneasy  that  no 
Goods  are  yet  arrived  for  them  from  Boston,  agreeable  to  the 
late  Treaty  with  them,  which  was  Ratified  by  Coll.  Shaw  in 
Behalf  of  the    States,  and  I   should   be   very  glad   if  your 
Honors  would  Satisfy  them  in  this  Point  as  soon  as  possible, 
as  they  have  been  Extremely  faithful  during  this  Contest ; 
and  if  this  is  done  I  am  confident  I  can  have  near  200  of  them 


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to  join  nio  in  any  Expedition  against  the  Enemy.  All  my 
Transactions  in  this  Att'air  have  been  done  l)y  the  Anthority 
of  a  Committee  of  Safety  for  the  Connty  of  Cnmberland,  and 
many  Ditticiilties  having  arisen  for  want  of  Commissions,  I 
hojie  yonr  Honors  will  send  some  blank  ones  for  the  raising 
of  a  Kegiment  in  this  Province,  if  the  Hon.  Continental  Con- 
gress shonld  think  tit  to  Carry  on  the  War  further  in  this 
Quarter,  so  that  Proper  Regulations  may  he  made  and  many 
disorderly  actions  prevented.     I  am,  &c., 

Jonathan  Eddy. 
Mangerville  on  tho  E.  St.  John,  Jany.  5th,  1777. 

[See  Appendix  A.] 

To  Joseph  Gorham,  Esq.,  Lieut.  Colonel  Commandt  of  the 
Koyal  Fencibles  Americans,  Connnanding  Fort  Cumber- 
land : 

The  already  too  plentifull  Eifusion  of  Human  Blood  in  the 
Unhappy  Contest  between  Great  Britain  and  the  Colonies, 
calls  on  every  one  engag'd  on  either  side,  to  use  their  utmost 
ettbrts  to  prevent  the  Unnatural  Carnage,  but  the  Importance 
of  the  Cause  on  the  side  of  America  has  made  War  necessary, 
and  its  Consequences,  though  in  some  Cases  shocking,  are 
yet  unavoidable.  But  to  Evidence  that  the  virtues  of  human- 
ity are  carefully  attended  to,  to  temper  the  Fortitude  of  a 
Soldier,  I  have  to  summon  you  in  the  Name  of  the  United 
Colonies  to  surrender  the  Fort  now  under  your  Command,  to 
the  Army  sent  under  me  by  the  States  of  America.  I  do 
promise  that  if  you  Surrender  Yourselves  as  Prisoners  of 
War  you  may  depend  upon  l)eing  treated  with  the  utmost 
Civility  and  kind  Treatment ;  if  you  refuse,  I  am  determined 
to  storme  the  Fort,  and  you  must  abide  the  consequences. 

Your  answer  is  expected  in  four  Hours  after  you  receive 
this  and  the  Flag  to  Keturn  safe. 

I  am  Sir  Your  most  obedt  Hble  Servt 

JoNA  Eddy 
Commanding  Officer  of  the  United  Forces. 
Nov.  10,  1776. 


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"FtCiimberlamnothNovr  1776. 

f    IV    ""'^Z'"^''^^"  '^'  '''''^''  "^  ''  ^''''''  ("»^-^-  ^<>nhv 
of  a  Ih^^  of  Truoo)  Signed  by  one  Jona'n  Eddy,  Comn.and- 

mg  officer    oxpressino:  a  concern  at  the  nnhappy  Contest  at 
present  Snbsistnig  between  great  Britain  and  tiie  Colonys 
and  reconnnending  those  engaged  on  either  side  to  use  thdr 
Lndeavors  to  prevent  the  too  Plcntifall  effnsion  of  human 
Jilood,  and  further  summoning  the  Commanding  ofHc(u-  to 
surrender  this  Garrison.     From  the  Conm^encement  of  these 
Contest  I  have  felt  for  my  dehided  Brother  Subjects  and 
Countrymen  of  America  and  for  the  many  Innocent  people 
they  have  wantonly  Involved  in  the  Horrors  of  an  Connatural 
Rebellion,  and  entertain  every  humane  principle  as  Avell  as  an 
utter  aversion  to  the  unnecessary  effusion  of  Christian  Blood. 
Therefore  connnand  you  in  his  lAIajesty's  name  to  disarm 
yourself  and  party  Immediately  and  Surrender  to  the  Kino-'s 
mercy,  and  further  desire  you  would  conununicate  the  fn- 
oloscd  Manifests  to  as  many  of  the  Inhabitants  you  can  and 
as  speeddy  as  possible,  to  prevent  their  being  involved  in  the 
Same  dangerous  and  Unhappy  dilenia. 

Be  assured  Sir  I  shall  never  dishonour  the  Character  of  a 
Soldier  by  Surrendering  my  command  to  any  Power  except 
to  that  of  my  Sovereign  from  whence  it  orignated. 
I  am  Sir  Your  most  hble  servt 

Jos.  GoKHAM  Lt  Col.  Com'at 

K.  F.  A.  Commanding  OfHcer 

at  Fort  Cuml)erland." 

I  here  give  a  copy  of  a  IMemorial  he  addressed  to  the  Gen- 
eral Court  in  1783,  which  gives  his  views  of  his  success : 

"Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts-to  the  Honourable  the 
Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  assembled,  the  Petition 
of  Jonathan  Eddy  Humbly  shewcth  that  your  Petitioner  in 
the  3,ear  177(5,  September  the  5th,  did  by  order  of  the  Hon- 
ored Court  then  sitting  at  Watertown,  Receive  from  the 
Comissary  General  supplies  of  Provision  and  ammunition,  in 


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oracr  to  iMiable  lilin  with  v.  Piirty  to  annoy  the  Enemies  of 
the  United  States,  for  which  your  Petitioner  with  others  gave 
their  seeurity  to  aeeount  for  when  called  upon ;  and  as  your 
Petitioner  conceaves  the  intent  and  meaning  of  the  Resolve 
was  that  he  should  expi'ud  it  that  way,  therefore  after  the 
above  supply,   did  proceed  to  the  Eastward  Shore  and  did 
capture  tifty  six  Uritish  soldiers,  ineludin<>-  two  captains,  one 
surgeon,  one  church  minister — besides  thirteen  killed,  and 
brot  of  seven  that  Deserted  to  us  ;  all  of  which,  excepting  the 
Dead,  were  l)rot  into  this  State,  and  many  of  the  Privates 
enlisted  into  the  service  of  the  United  States,  the  two  Cap- 
tains and  several  of  the  others  were  Exchanged  for  Prisoners 
captured  from  the  United  States  and  carryed  into  Halifax. 
Piesides  that  morover  was  the  means  of  keeping  near  two 
thousand  of  the   Enemy  at  Halifax  for  a  considerable  space, 
aft(n-  so  that  that  the  States  had  not  so  many  to  incounter 
with  at  New  York ;  and  as  your  Petitioner  is  Contident  the 
Provision  and  amnumition  Avas  Expended  for  the  (purpose) 
it  was  designed  for ;  and  as  your  Petitioner  does  not  Re(piest 
any  thing  for  his  own  time  and  expences  at  Present,  yet 
Humbly  re(piests  this  Honorable  House  would  order  that  the 
above   obligations  may  be    (cancelled)    or   such   other  ways 
made  void  as  jou  in  your  wisdom  shall  think  best. 

n7Sa)  Jon  A.  Eddy." 

The  Government  of  Xova  Scotia  had  learned  his  boldness 
and  perseverance,  and  endeavored  to  capture  him  by  ofl'er  of 
large  rewards. 

"At  a  Council  holden  at  Halifax  on  the  17th  Xov.,  1770. 
Present  the  Honorable  the  Lieut.  Governor,  the  Hon.  Charles 
Morris,  liiehard  Bulkly,  Henr^-  Morton,  Jonathan  liiuney, 
Arthur  Goold,  John  Butler. 

"On  certain  lutelligeuce  having  lu-en  received  that  Jona- 
than Eddy,  William  Howe  and  Samuel  Rogers  have  been  to 
the  utmost  of  their  power  exciting  and  stirnng  up  disalfection 
and  rebellion  among  the  people  of  the  county  of  Cumber- 
land, and  are  actually  before  the  fort  at  C\unberland  with  a 


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ronsidorablc  inmilx'r  of  rebels  from  New  En^rlaiid,  tocrothor 
with  fsomo  Ac'{i(]iim8  unci  Indians.  It  was  therefore  resolvc^d 
to  offer  £200  for  apprehend in^^  Jonathan  Eddy  and  £100  for 
each  of  the  others,  so  that  they  he  brou«rht  to  justice.  Also 
£100  for  appn-Iiendinir  of  John  Allan,  who  has  been  deeply 
couecrned  in  exciting  the  said  rebellion." 

"In  June,  1777  an  expedition  was  undertaken  for  the  relief 
of  the  people  upon  the  River  St.  J(jhn  and  upon  the  boi-dei-s 
of  the  IJay  of  Fundy,  who  were  friendly  to  the  United  Stales, 
and  who  were  reported  to  be  harrassed  or  oppressed  by 
British  emissaries.  It  was  pr()l)a1)ly  i^rojected  through  the 
importunity  of  Jonathan  Eddy  and  his  brave  fugitive  com- 
panions, who  still  believed  Fort  Cumberland  could  be  easily 
taken.  Though  the  consent  of  Congress  was  obtained,  the 
plan,  the  outrtt,  and  the  expense  all  attached  to  Massachu- 
setts. *  *  *  *  ]{„<-  11^^.,.^  .j^.^.^^  unexpected  difHculties 
in  the  prosecution  of  the  plan,  which  occasioned  delays  and 
iinally  an  entire  abandomnent  of  the  enterprise  in  its  original 
form."     (Williamson  His.  of  Maine,  Vol.  2,  p.  4,")8.) 

The  Council  of  Massachusetts  Bay  seemed  to  have  undi- 
minished confidence   in  the  al)ility  of  Col.  Eddy,  for  I  can 
find  no  other  persoa  named  who  was  to  command  the  expedi- 
tion except   him.      He  was  at   Machias,   Aug.    12,   with  a 
Regimental  organization,  supplies,  &c.     He  was  also  present 
at  :Machias  when  that  place  was  attacked  by  the  Bi-itish  Fleet 
Aug.  13,  14,  IT),  1777,  and  appears  to  have  been  in  command. 
Reports  concerning  the  Battle  were  made  by  (V)l.  John  Allan, 
Col.   Benjamin  Foster,  :\Iaj.  George  Stillman,  and  by  Col. 
Eddy  to  the  Council  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts  Bay.     In 
the  reports  of  Allan,  Foster  and  Stillman,  no  authority  was 
claimed  by  them,  while  that  of  Col.  Eddy's  seems  to  be  the 
Report  of  the  Officer  in  command  at  the  Battle.     It  is  passing 
strange   that  in  all  the  published  accounts  of  it,  and  in  the 
centennial  celebration  at  Machias,  May  20,  ISOS,  no  mention 
was  made  of  the  name  of  the  offieer  probably  in  comuiand  at 
at  that  most  important  afi'air. 


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I  <;iv('  11  copy  of  Col.  Eddy's  ofticial  report  copied  from  tho 
ori<finiil  in  the  Massiielmwetts  Archives,  und  wlii<'li  is  in  some 
rcspectH  the  most  full  and  complete  account  written; 

"MachiaH,  An«r.  17,  1777. 
To  i\w  Hon.  Conned  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts  Bay  : 
Since  my  last  uc(iuaintin<,'  your  Honors  with  the  Intelligence 

1  had  rec'd  concerning  the  Enemy's  Design  of  invading  this 
place  wo  have  found  the  realities  of  it.  Last  Wednesduy  tho 
l;;th  inst  api)earc(l  in  sight  three  ships  a  Brig  and  small 
Schooner  coming  from  th(^  Westward  and  standing  in  for  the 
lIarl)or  and  soon  after  came  to  Anchor.  One  of  them  was  a 
lar'^e  Ship  supposed  to  he  the  liainhow  of  44  gims  the  Mil- 
ford  28  the  Vulture  14  and  tlu;  armed  Brig  Hope  0.  Con- 
ceiving grt^at  II(»pes  of  taking  us  by  surprise  the  Hope  stood 
innncdiatcly  up  tlie  Kivei  attended  hy  a  Sloop  and  twelve 
boats  till  they  came  o^jposite  to  a  small  Battery  wo  had  about 

2  miles,  b(  low  the  falls  manned  with  about  twenty  men  with 
small  arms  and  one  2  pounder.  The  Enemy  attempted  to 
land  there  with  0  boats  and  about  2  or  .']()()  men,  but  failed, 
for  our  men  repidsed  them  with  some  loss.  Early  on  Thurs- 
day morning  it  being  thick  foggy  weather  they  landed  a  little 
below  the  Battery  on  a  neck  of  clear  land  in  hopes  of  cutting 
off  th(!  retreat  of  our  small  Party  but  Col.  Foster  there  took 
snch  Precautions  in  that  point  as  rendered  their  hopes  abor- 
tive and  secured  his  retiirn.  The  Enemy  then  took  Posses- 
sion of  the  Battery  and  burnt  2  houses  and  barns  ther*>abont8, 
and  soon  after  the  Brig  stood  up  the  river  together  with  the 
Sloop  and  Boats  above  mentioned  till  they  came  fairly  in 
sight  and  within  good  shot  of  the  Falls  not  expecting  to  meet 
with  any  resistance  but  seeing  Continental  Colors  Hying  and 
two  Breast  Works  fill'd  with  men  one  of  them  having  2  2 
pounders,  the  other  one  2  pounder  and  (5  swivels  they  began 
to  think  of  retreating  and  accordingly  got  the  Boats  ahead  to 
tow  the  Brig  down.  This  was  about  sunset.  I  instantly 
detached  Maj.  Stillman  with  30  men  to  attack  the  Boats  and 
harass  the  Enemy  on  their  retreat.  The  :Major  proceeded  by 
Land  till  he  got  abreast  of  the  Brig  and  Boats  about  a  milo 


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2  2 


niid  a  lialf  below  llic  FmIIm  and  hnrrtm  a  hoavv  Hro  wliidi  was 
warmly  rotunicd  for  Home  tinio  from  the  IJri^^  with  ("imii(»M 
ami  small  arms.  The  allair  contimu'd  in  (his  I  ostiirc  till 
they  eamo  opposite  the  Battery  which  they  had  taken  at  tirst, 
whore  the  nri<if  eame  to  an  anchor  the  Hoats  not  Iteinjjf  aide 
any  longer  to  keej)  ahead  lieeanse  of  the  ineeasant  lire  of  onr 
people  which  as  the  Kiver  is  pretty  narrow  niu.st  do  consid- 
erable Execntion  among  the  lioats.  Next  morning  she  got 
under  way  again  with  the  Boats  idiead  and  were  again  attacked 
by  our  men  on  Ixith  sides  of  the  Kiver  but  finally  got  down 
out  of  reach  of  snudl  arms  (but  soon)  ran  iiground  so  that 
she  was  left  dry  at  Low  water  our  peopK;  got  ono  of  tlu^  2 
pounders  down  and  began  to  play  upon  her  in  this  Positiou 
and  hulled  her  several  times.  It  is  very  unfortunate  that  we 
had  not  1  or  2  good  ])ieees  of  Cannon  as  hy  that  means  the 
Brig  must  have  struck  to  us.  However,  having  lighteiuMl  her 
with  the  help  of  the  Sloop,  she  got  otf  the  next  high  water 
and  dropped  down  to  the  other  ships,  and  this  morning  the 
whole  came  to  sail  and  went  out  except  the  Milford.  Their 
destination  is  unknown  to  us  as  yet  but  I  shall  take  care  to 
inform  your  honors  as  soon  as  I  can  procure  any  intelligence 
thereof.  I  nuist  beg  leave  to  Request  an  innnediate  supply 
of  auumition  and  provisions  as  what  I  brought  with  me  will 
hist  but  a  little  while  having  been  obliged  to  expend  a  good 
deal  iu  this  three  days  siege.  In  all  these  attacks  our  loss  is 
only  1  mau  killed  and  Capt.  Farnsworth  of  my  lieginuMit 
wounded  l)ut  hope  he  will  do  well.  Great  praise  is  due  Col. 
Foster  Mud  the  militia  under  his  conuuand  who  mive  me  all 
the  assistance  I  could  desire  and  behaved  extremely  well, 
as  also  to  Maj.  Stillman  and  the  rest  of  the  otKcers  and  men 
belonging  to  the  2  Kegiments  now  raising.  It  happened  ex- 
trenu'ly  well  ibr  us  that  Mr.  Allen  and  Mr.  Preble  had  arrived 
with  about  40  Indians  who  were  of  great  service  to  us  ami 
assisted  us  greatly.  The  Enemy's  loss  in  all  these  attacks 
must  have  been  pretty  considcn-able  though  we  cannot  at 
present  come  to  auy  certainty  of  it.     For  further  particukrs 


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J  ict'cr  you  to  I/u'iit.  Col.  C'lmiplicll  who  has  Ihm'h  very  ailcrt 
oil  this  occasion  and  j^ivcn  us  all  tho  aMsistunce  in  his  [)o\ver 
iVom  the  western  settlements. 

I  am  with  Itespect  your  Ilonorn  Most  Obedient  Ilumblo 
Servant. 

JONA.    EODY." 

A  Committee  of  the  Town  of  Maehias,  Aug.  25,  1777, 
addressed  C»)l.  Eddy  the  following  letter  : 

"Sir:  The  Inhabitants  of  Maehias  in  town  nn-eting 
assembled,  are  informed  that  the  expedition  to  St.  Johns  in 
Nova  Scotia  is  laid  aside  and  that  you  have  orders  (to  dis- 
ebarge)  all  the  men  belonging  to  your  Hi'giment.  We  sup- 
posed when  the  Court  pass'd  that  resolve  they  had  no  appre- 
hension of  our  being  attacked  by  our  P^nemies,  but  you  are 
an  eye  w'itness  to  the  late  attack  made  upon  us,  and  of  their 
defeat  and  are  also  sensible  that  by  all  the  information  wo 
can  obtaiii  that  they  are  retired  to  collect  a  Superior  force  with 
a  determination  to  destroy  this  place  ;  We  the  Subscribers  are 
by  the  lnh,il»itants  of  Maehias  in  their  said  meeting  chosen  as 
a  Conmiittee  to  wait  upon  you  and  recjiu'st  of  you  not  to  dis- 
charge any  one  of  the  I'ulisted  men  belonging  to  your  Kegi- 
ment  l)ut  to  consign  them  over  to  ]Major  Stillman  and  to  assure 
you  that  the  Inhabitants  of  this  place  will  be  answerable  for 
their  ]>ay  and  support. 

We  are  sir  with  Esteem  your  most  Obed't  Humble  Servants. 

Stephk\  Jones, 
Bp:x.r.  FosTKii, 
Geo.  Stillmax, 
Jonas  FiViiNswouTir, 
Steimien  Smith. 
To  Col.  Jona.  Eddy,  Commanding." 

"'J  he  Doi^osition  of  Colonel  Jonathan  Eddy  who  testitietli 
and  s.iith  that  on  the  14th  day  of  August  1777  he  ])eing  at 
MjRhias  aud  being  comnuuiding  otiicer  there  and  at  the  same 


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time  the  pliico  "wns  Ix'set  by  the  tiifrny  tlio  nnid  HopoiKMit 
ftHkcd  Mr.  Allim  Supoi-intciKlciif  of  tlu^  Kiistcrn  Iiidiims  to 
tnk(!  IiIh  arms  und  head  the  Indians  ho  inmn'diatt'Iy  Kciilyrd 
tlmt  ho  had  not  taken  up  jirnis  us  yet  and  did  not  Di'siro  to 
and  further  saith  not.  Jonathan  Eddy." 

"Suffolk,  HH.  July  7,  1771).  Then  .lonathan  Kdd'  person- 
ally apiH'ared  and  made  oath  to  the  truth  of  the  above  doclaru- 
tion  before  uio. 

JOSRI'H    GlMOKNLEAF,    JustlcO  pcaCC." 

Ah  there  has  l)een  some  controversy  a?  to  wiio  was  in  com- 
mand at  Maehias,  I  hero  hisert  a  conrnunication  printed  in 
tr  5  Machias  (Me.)  Kepubllcan,  April  7,  1<'>77,  whieh  covers 
the  whole  {ground : 

Col.  Jonathan'  Eddy. 
To  the  Auditor  of  (lie  liepuhlican: 

I  have  your  paper  of  Jan.  (5,  1877,  containing  an  interest- 
inj;  reply  to  my  article  of  Nov.  25th,  187(1,  by  (jeorge  II. 
Allan,  P^sq.,  of  Boston.  I  have  delayed  an  answer  in  the 
hope  that  1  might  be  able  to  examine  some  papers  in  the 
Archives  of  Massachusetts,  which  bear  materially  on  the  case, 
bnt  that  at  present  I  cannoi  do.  I  honor  my  friend  Allan  for 
the  jealous  care  with  Avhich  he  uiiards  the  reputation  of  his 
noble  and  patriotic  ancestor,  Col.  Jo>n  Allan,  who  was,  up 
to  the  period  we  write  of.  Superintendent  of  the  Eastern 
Indians.  I  have  no  controversy  with  him — I  only  wish  to 
brinij;  out  the  facts.  One  ^ood  will  come  out  of  this,  and  that 
is,  that  the  old  town  of  Machias  w  11  stand  some  chance  to 
get  its  due  in  the  history  of  the  country'. 

Was  Col.  Jonathan  Eddy  in  eonuuand  at  the  battle  of 
Machias  in  August,  1777?  I  atlirm  that  he  was,  for  the  fol- 
lowing reasons,  and  I  will  re-state  them  as  briefly  as  I  can, 
with  such  additions  as  I  may  have  at  hand.  Col.  Eddy  was 
at  jVIaehias  at  the  time  with  a  Kegimental  organization,  offi- 
cers, soldiers  and  supplies,  on  his  way  to  St.  John's  river 
and  Nova  Scotia  with  another  expedition.     I  know  not  how 


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many  men  Iig  had ;  ho  was  at  the  thne  recruiting  men  to  fill 
up  his  regiuient.  I  copy  from  original  papers  now  before 
mo  : 

"Boston,  Sept.  18,  1777.  We  the  sul)scribcrs  do  acknowl- 
edge to  have  Kcc'd  of  Col.  Jona.  Eddy  in  behalf  of  the  Pay- 
master of  the  I^cgiment  tlie  several  sums  set  against  our 
names  in  full,  f(n-  our  and  our  companies  for  services  done  in 
the  Ivegiment  under  the  counnand  of  the  said  Jonathan  Eddy 
Esquire.  Witness  onr  hands. 

Capt.  Xath.  Reynolds,  £78     2     8 

Zehulon  Row,  49     (5     7 

Antliony  Burk,  55     8     8 

Bartholonu'w  York,  75  19     (> 

Jonas  Farnsworth,  (not  in  full)  19     4     5 

"Boston,  Feb.  10,  1778.  Kec.  of  Col.  Jona.  Eddy,  Ten 
pounds,  six  shillings  &  sixpcjnce  ;  and  also  rec'd  of  Col.  Alex. 
Campbell,  Twenty-one  pounds,  twelve  shillings,  it  being  in 
full  of  the  wages  Due  me  for  being  in  the  State  Service  hi 
said  Eddy's  Kegiment  the  sunnner  past. 

Jonas  Farnsworth." 

It  was  a  respectable  organization.  Lieut.  Col.  Nevers  was 
his  officca- ;  Elijah  .Vyer  was  his  Quarter  blaster.  I  copy  from 
original  papers  • 

"Machias,  Aug.  14,  1777.  Then  rec'd  of  Elijah  Ayer, 
Quarter  Master  of  the  Troops  iuMachias,  four  stands  of  arms 
for  to  be  made  use  in  my  Militia  for  the  Defence  of  the 
Amerii;an  States.  Benj.  Foster." 

"lieturn  of  ]*rovisions  for  James  Avery  for  his  Ration 
from  2(>lh  duly  to  the  18th  Day  of  .Vugust  is  four  weeks. 
jNIachias,  Aug.  11,  1777.  Jas.  Avery. 

Jas.  Avery  begs  Col.  Eddy  will  giv^e  order  that  he  might 
draw  his  Provision,  the  20th  July  was  the  day  he  arrived  at 
Machias." 

Five  Ca])'.ains  and  Companies  and  a  pay  roll  of  ov(>r  three 
hundred  pounds ;  a  largo  sum  for  th(^se  days.  ]Mr.  Allan 
says:  "As  Col.  Eddy's  Regiment  formed  a  portion  of  the 
St.  John's  expedition  and  was  disbanded  when  that  enter- 
prise was  given  up.  Col.  Allen,  the  connnander  of  that  expe- 
dition, nnist  have  been  the  first  in  conunand  at  the  battle  of 
Machias."     1  put  Allan  in  1777  against  Allen  in  1877.     In 


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Col.  Allan's  letter  dated  Machias  Sept.  22,  1777,  in  Kidder's 
most  valnable  history,  page  229,  he  says:  *  *  *  "The 
Letter  which  came  to  Col.  Eddy,  (after  Col.  Eddy  had  left, 
J.  w.  p.)  it  being  on  public  service,  I  reconmiended  Maj. 
Stillnian  to  open,  when  wo  found  some  Blank  Commissions  ; 
had  our  situation  been  more  peaceable  I  would  have  advised 
them  to  be  immediately  tilled  up.  But  the  appointing-  such 
officers  as  might  be  thought  necessary  would  give  umbrage  to 
others  who  might  so  influence  the  men  as  to  occasion  distur- 
bance which  at  present  appears  our  business  to  prevent — 
Besides  it  is  thought  reciuisitc  to  delay  filling  them  up  at 
present  as  our  orders  comes  so  immediately  to  Col.  Eddy 
wlio  was  offered  tlie  command." 

What  Command?  Where?  Also  see  Col.  Allans  Letter 
Machias  Aug.  17,  1777,  (Kidder,  page  211)  "*  *  *  I  have 
apply'd  to  Col.  Pkldy  to  call  a  Court  ^Martial  to  inquire  in  the 
conduct  of  officers  and  others  in  the  expedition  to  St.  John 
&c."  See  Col.  Allan's  letter  Aug.  27,  (Ki  Ider,  page  214) 
"*  *  *  I  Avaited  upon  Col.  Eddy  and  prayed  him  not  to  be 
so  sudden  in  dischai'ging  his  men  *  *  *  *  but  he  appeared 
inflexible  and  Avas  resolved  to  follow  the  orders  and  instruc- 
tions of  the  Brigadier  &c."  This  is  not  the  language  of  a 
conmiandlng  officer !  See  Col.  Allan's  letter  Aug.  27,  1777 
(Kidder,  page  2i;})  "*  *  *  On  the  22nd  inst.  a  boy  lately 
belonging  to  the  Hancock  was  sent  on  shore  with  a  letter  for 
exchange  of  prisoners.  Col.  Eddy  (no  doubt  for  wise 
reas-ons)  thought  best  not  to  answer  it."  If  Col.  Eddy  was 
not  in  connnand  why  Avere  these  proposals  for  an  exchange  of 
prisonei-s  referred  to  him?  Do  these  extracts  shoAv  Mr.  Allan 
to  have  been  fii'st  in  Connnand?  Do  they  not  s^nv  the  con- 
trary? The  inhabitants  of  Machias  had  a  town  meeting  Aug. 
2.5,  1777,  aiul  chose  a  Committee  of  fiA^e  of  their  first  men, 
and  instructed  them  to  reciuest  Col.  "Jonathan  Eddy  com- 
manding" not  to  discharge  his  men.  Col.  Eddy  in  his  oth'cial 
Keport  of  Aug.  17,  1777,  claims  the  command,  and  the  Keport 
sounds  very  nnu'li  like  the  rei)ort  of  a  connnanding  otficer. 


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He  wtm  also  recognized  by  tlic  Government  after  the  expedi- 
tion to  St.  John  Avas  abandoned,  hy  its  sending  him  blank 
Commissions  for  some  purjiose.  In  no  other  report  or  letter 
written  at  that  time  was  it  elaimed  that  nny  other  ottieer  had 
the  command.  In  Col.  Eddy's  deposition  Jnly  7,  1771),  he 
testifies  that  he  was  "c(mimanding  otHcer"  there.  As  to  the 
criticisms  upon  Col.  Eddy  relating  to  any  former  period,  I 
have  only  to  say  that  he  appears  to  have  had  the  continued 
confidence  of  the  Government,  Avhich  gave  him,  if  not  the 
com.aand  of  the  expedition,  the  command  of  a  Regiment 
therein  !  Mr.  Allan  comes  down  upon  me  with  the  crushing 
statement  that  "  exce^jt  what  appears  in  his  own  letter  I  do 
not  tind  that  Col.  Eddy  Avas  really  in  the  Batlle."  I  submit 
that  Avhat  I  liaA'c  written  goes  to  show  that  Col.  Eddy  Avas  in 
the  Battle  and  Avas  "connnanding  officer." 

But  to  turn  the  tables,  Avas  Col.  Allan  in  the  Battle?  If 
so,  Avhere  is  the  proof?  Where  is  the  proof  that  he  liad  any 
military  connnand  recognized  there  at  that  time,  or  a  soldier 
under  his  orders?  In  Avhat  is  called  Col.  Allan's  Diary,  Avrit- 
ten  by  Lieut.  Ered  Delesdernier,  uiidei-  date  of  Machias,  Oct. 
11,  1777,  (See  Kidder,  page  142)  is  Avritten,  " yesterday  ]\Ir. 
Allan  took  connnand  of  the  military,  having  receiA'cd  a 
colonel's  commission  for  that  purpose."  And  in  a  note  at  the 
bottom  of  same  page  Mr.  Kidder  adds  "previous  to  this  it  is 
probable  he  had  l)een  mainly  acting  as  Superintendent  of  the 
Indians,  although  he  was  appointed  a  Colonel  by  the  Mass. 
gOA-ernment  six  months  previous."  There  is  no  proof  that  at 
that  time  he  Avas  acting  in  any  other  capacity  than  Superiii- 
tendent  of  the  Eastern  Indians.  Snme  of  those  Indians  took 
part  in  the  Battle.  In  his  letter  of  Aug.  17,  1777,  (Kidder, 
page  204)  lie  says  "*  *  *  ]  oinbody'd  the  Indians  l)et\veen 
Forty  and  Fifty.  Aftei-  I  had  s^joken  to  tluiu  upon  the  mnt- 
ter  they  very  cheerfully  n-puf  on  Service  down  the  Biver." 
In  same  h'tter  (i)age  iOC)  "*  ♦  *  At  10  o'clock  Captain 
Smith  with  a  number  of  white  men  and  aU  thp  JikJUiuk  set  otf 
&c."     Col.   Eddy  says  in  his  official  report:  "It  hapi)ened 


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extremoly  well  for  us  that  Mr.  Allan  and  INIr.  Prohle  had 
arrived  with  about  40  Indians  Avho  were  of  great  service  &c." 
Col.  Eddy  in  his  Deposition  l)efore  Justiee  Grecnleaf,  July  7, 
1779,  says  he  asked  Mr.  Allan,  i^uperintendent  of  the  East- 
ern Indian)^,  "  to  take  his  arms  and  head  his  Indians,  which  he 
refused  to  do."  Rev.  Seth  Noble,  minister  and  soldier  at  the 
Battle  of  Machias,  afterwards  first  settled  minister  of  l^angor, 
testified  under  oath,  also  1)efore  Justice  Greenleaf  at  Boston 
July  7,  1779,  that  at  the  Battle  of  ^Niachias,  Aug.  14,  1777, 
"Mr.  John  Allan,  Superintendent  of  the  Eastern  Indians, 
appeared  without  arms.  Coi.  Eddy  desired  him  to  take  his 
arms  and  head  hit,  Indians  which  he  refused  to  do."  The 
italics  in  this  article  are  mine.  In  view  of  what  I  have 
Avritt(>n  it  seems  to  me  that  there  can  l)e  but  one  opinion,  as 
to  who  was  the  "officer  connnauding  "  at  the  Battle  of  Machias, 
Aug.  1777. 

J.    W.    POIITEII. 

Burlington,  March  20th,  1877. 

After  the  atti'ck  on  IMachias,  Col.  Eddy  returned  to  ^N fans- 
field ,  Mass.,  where  he  resided  until  1781,  when  he  removed 
to  Sharon,  Mass. 

1781,  Nov.  5.  The  town  of  Sharon  "Voted  not  to  receive 
as  an  inhabitant  any  of  the  persons  hereafter  m.  iitioned  who 
have  come  into  the  town  to  reside — Col.  Jonathan  Eddy  and 
family  from  Nova  Scotia  and  others."  It  Avas  then  the  cus- 
tom to  pass  such  a  vote  to  prevent  the  town  being  lialde  for 
support  of  persons  coming  in.  In  this  case,  the  people  of 
Sharon  soon  recovered  from  any  fear  upon  that  point,  tor 
May  1(5,  1782,  "At  a  meeting  of  the  Freeholders,  Col. 
Jona.  Eddy  was  chosen  to  represent  them  at  the  Great  and 
General  Coia't  of  Conunonwealth  of  Mass.  for  the  ensuing 
year." 

Aug.  9,  17.S2.  "Voted  tliat  Col.  Jonathan  Eddy  be  ap- 
pointed to  join  the  other  towns  in  advising  and  making  a 
passage  for  ye  fish  called  alewives,  shad  and  other  fish  passing 
up  Neponset  Kiver." 


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1783,  INIiiy  12.  "Colonel  Joniithau  Eddy  was  chosen  to 
represent  them  at  the  Great  and  General  Court."  Ho  was 
taxed  in  Sliaron*1781,  1782,  1783,  1784. 

In  1784,  ho  resolved  to  enn'grate  to  ]\Iaine,  and'Avrote  the 
following  letter  to  the  iniiabitants  of  Sharon  : 
"  To  the  Inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Sharon — 

Gent  the  many  singular  favours  l)estowed  on  mo  since  I 
had  my  Kesidence  in  this  town — Demand  my  warmest 
acknowledgement  and  was  I  to  be. silent  on  the  matter  it 
would  be  a  piece  of  ingratitude  and  shew  that  I  was  Destitute 
of  humanity,  but  with  the  sincerest  i)leasurc  I  return  you  my 
hearty  thanks :  Ever  wishing  that  the  most  permanent 
Blessings  witliout  m  !iich  no  [joople  can  be  happy  may  ever 
Kest  on  the  iniiabitants  of  tlie  town  of  Sharon,  but  as  the 
unnatural  Avar  which  we  have  had  have  Deprived  me  of 
almost  all  my  living,  yet  since  the  Blessings  of  peace  has  be'^n 
Restored  to  this  Country,  I  am  now  inclined  to  Ketire  to 
some  of  the  uncultivated  parts  of  the  Commonwealth,  where 
with  economy,  industry  and  frugality,  with  a  Blessing  attend- 
ing my  Endeavors  I  may  still  hope  for  a  Comfortable  Support 
for  my  self  and  family,  wherefore  I  nuist  now  take  my  leave 
of  the  town  avcU  assuring  them  that  I  shall  Ever  Rest  their 
assured  friend  and  Avell  wisher.  Siil)scril)ing  myself  at  the 
same  time  Gent  your  most  obedient 

and  very  humble  servant 

May  12,  1784.  •  Joxa  Eddy." 

In  August  (jf  1784,  Col.  Eddy  with  his  family  removed  to 
ToAvnship  No.  Ten,  east  side  of  Penobscot  river,  at  the  head 
of  the  tide.  This  townshii)  was  afterwards  known  as  Eddy- 
town  Phuitation  and  incori)orateJ  into  the  town  of  Eddington 
1811 — named  in  compliment  to  Co).  Edtly. 

[Soo  Aiipuxdix  A.] 


Williamson's  IIist(ny  of  Maine,  vol.  2,  page  51'),  says 
"Jonathan  Eddy  and  his  companions  had  during  the  Avar 
manifested  so  ardent  and  laudable  an  attachmenl  to  tlie  Amor- 


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ican  ciinse  that  Congress  (17H5)  moved  hy  their  merits  and 
siiilering's  particularly  reconuuended  their  condition  to  the 
attention  and  humanity  of  :Massachusetts.  Hence  the  govern- 
ment granted  to  twenty  of  them  several  h)ts  of  land  of  difier- 
ent  sizes,  making  an  aggregate  of  nine  thousand  acres  to  be 
located  in  one  body. 

In  1758  Governor  Pownal  came  to  Penobscot  river  to  locate 
Forts,  &c.  He  came  up  the  river  to  a  point  supposed  to  be 
near  the  mouth  of  the  Kenduskeag,  and  as  he  relates  in  his 

diary : 

"  Landed  on  the  East  Side  the  River  with  136  men  and 
proceeded  to  the  head  of  the  first  Falls  about  fcnir  and  a 
quarter  from  the  first  Ledge.  Clear  Land  on  the  left  for  near 
four  miles.  *  *  *  At  the  Head  of  the  Falls — Buried  a 
Leaden  Plat(5  with  the  following  inscription:  "May  23, 
1758.  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay— Dominions  of  Great 
Britain,— Possession  confirmed  by  T.  Pownal,  G'^vr.  Erected 
a  Flag  Staff, — Hoisted  the  King's  Colors  and  Saluted  them." 
(Sec  Me.  His.  Soc.  Coll.  VI,  page  335.) 

In . consequence  of  this  act  of  Gov.  Pownal,  the  territory 
between  Penobscot  and  St.  Croix  was  saved  to  the  United 
States  by  the  Treaty  of  1783. 

The  precise  spot  where  Gov.  Pownal  buried  his  plate  and 
took  possession,  was  without  doubt  upon  the  land  of  Col. 
Eddy  Avhich  he  received  under  this  grant,  and  where  he  after- 
wards lived  and  died. 

In  1785  he  bought  the  first  vessel  ever  oAvncd  on  "Penobscot 
River,"  the  Schooner  Blackbird.  Her  Register  signed  by 
John  Avery,  Jr.,  Secretary,  and  Countersigned  by  John 
ncock.  Governor  of  Mass.,  says  she  was  built  at  Beverly, 
1780,  and  sold  by  Peter  Coffin,  Jr.,  of  Gloucester,  May  16, 
1785,  to  Messrs.  Stephen  &  Ralph  Cross  of  Newlniryport, 
and  by  them  sold  about  first  of  November,  1785,  to  Col. 
Eddy.  She  was  probably  a  fisherman,  and  made  several 
voyages  to  Grand  Manan  after  Col.  Eddy  owned  her. 


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IIo  was  chairman  of  the  foniniittoo  apiwintcd  to  employ  tlie 
first  mini,stei'  settled  on  IVnobseot  Kiver,  Kev.  Seth  Noble, 
June  7,  178G. 

[Soo  Appendix  C] 

He  Mas  the  first  Magistrate  on  "Penobscot  Iviver." 
Juno  li),  171I0.  He  was  appointed  by  Governor  John 
Hancock  "A  Special  .Justice  of  the  Court  of  (\)nnn()n  Pleas, 
a  Ke<j:ister  of  Probate  and  A\'ills  and  a  Justice  of  the  Peace 
and  (Quorum  for  the  County  of  Penobscot,"  and  qualified  for 
all  those  otfices  by  Col.  Paul  Dudley  Sargent  and  Judge 
William  Vinal. 

17!I2,  Feb.  25.  He  issued  his  warrant  to  Capt.  James 
Bridu'e,  calling  a  Meeting  of  Inhabitants  to  organize  the  Town 
of  Uangor. 

[See  Apponilix  D.] 

17*.)n,  Aug.  Took  Acknowledgement  of  Treaty  between 
Mass.  Counnissioners  and  the  seven  chiefs  of  the  Penobscot 
Tribe  of  Indians. 

1<S()0.  He  was  appointed  Postmaster  at  Eddy  ton  PL,  a 
Post  route  having  been  established  there. 

[Sue  Appcmlix  E.] 

In  ISOl  Congress  granted  land  to  the  IJefugecs  from  New 
Brunswick  and  Nova  Scotia,  Col.  Eddy  receiving  as  his  share 
1,2S0  acres,  receiving  four  Avarrants  therefor,  signed  by 
Thomas  Jefi'erson,  President,  James  ^ladison.  Sec.  of  State, 
dated  Mav  7,  1<S02.  These  lands  were  in  the  Chillicotha 
District,  Ohio. 

[See  App(Mi(lix  K  und  F.] 

His  business  as  Justice  was  larg(>.  The  number  of  mar- 
riages solemnized  by  him  wei-e  numerous. 

[Sec   Apin'iKlix  G.] 

Col.  Eddy  after  a  long,  useful  and  eventful  life,  died  in 
August,  1804,  aged  7<s  years. 


EDDY    Gi^ENEALOOY. 


WxlWm  (?rt(Utf,  ^Hcar.* 


Rev.  AVilliiim  Eddy,  A.  ^l.,  was  Vicar  of  Cranbrook  County 
of  Kent  ill  England,  of  Saint  Dini.ston's  ohuirh,  from  I'xS'J  to 
KMC.     He  was  a  gentleman  of  mueli  method  and  order  in  all 
his  movements  in  the  Parish.     lie  was  a  striet  Episeopalian 
and  did  very  much  for  his  ehureli  and  parishioners.     All  the 
loose  registers  of  the  parish  dating  back  from  1.>SH,  were 
collected,  arranged  and   properly  entered   by  him  in  a  new 
parchment  book  purchased  l)y  him  for  the  express  purpose. 
Eor  this  service  he  was  paid   by  the  Parish  the  sum  of  £4. 
He    beautifully  engrossed   about    eighty   of  its   folio   pages 
besides  illuminating  others.     The  recin-ds  are  now  (l.S.VJ)  in 
a  good  state  of  preservation.     On  one  page   therein  is  the 
following  entry  :     "Paid  that  was  siieiit  in  charges  riding  to 
Canterbury  for  to  carry  in  the  iirst  money  gathered  here  for 

^'ir^•inia.*' 

Uv   married  :\Iary   Foste^Xov.   20th,   1587,  and  among 

other  children  had 

Saimu'l.  bom  KiOS.  wiio  c.inu"  to  Plyuioutli.  M;i,<^..  Ki'^O. 

SamueP  Eddy,  son  of  1{<'V.  AVilliam  Eddy,  died  at  Swanzey, 
KISS;  m.  Elizabeth ,  who  lied l(;si-S2. 

He  came  to  Plymouth  in  ship  Handmaid  October,  ir.30, 
Avhere  he  bought' a  house  and  land  of  Experience  ^Mitchell 
:^iav  9,  1<');U.  He  was  tax.-d  in  I'lymonth  from  UuV2  to  KlSS. 
The  latter  part  of  his  life  he  resided  Anth  hisj^ons  in  Middle- 

"*  T^aut^nn^i^^  Wmia.u  Eaayo,  Vicnr,  was  eo,Ho,l  f.o.n  tho  oM  Parish  Kogistcrs 
at  St.  DunstonV,  July  W,  Ib.VJ,  by  11.  U.  Kddy,  E..,.,  No.  70  State  Strc.t,  I'.oston. 


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l)oro  .'ind  Swanzoy.  Tn  a  cloed  made  near  the  time  of  his 
death  ho  names  his  residence  as  of  I'lymontli. 

"In  ll!;')!,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Sanniel  Eddy,  arraiixiied  for 
wringing  and  hanging  out  her  eh)thes  on  Lord's  Day,  tine 
twenty  shillin<>'s  remitted."     Ohl  Coh)nv  lieeords. 

''In  ItltiO,  Elizabeth  Eddy  summoned  for  travidling  from 
Plymouth  to  Boston  on  Lord's  Day — fined  and  held." 

Their  children  were  : 

1  i    .[(.liii.-^  horn  Dec.  25, 1037. 

2  ii  Zcclicriiili,"  KUW. 
:{  iii  (mIcI).-  lfu;{. 
4  Iv  Ohadiiih."  V',V). 
,')  V    Ilaiiimli.'' Juno23,  1047. 

1  John'  Eddy,  born  Plj'mouth  Dee.  25.  10.^7,  was  a 
carpenter  and  lived  in  Taunton.  He  married  tirst,  Susanna 
Paddock,  Nov.  12,  IGlJo  ;  she  died  Mar.  14,  Kill.  He  mar- 
ried second,  Deliverance  Owen  of  Braintree,  May  1,  1(572. 
He  was  a  large  Land  owner  in  Taunton,  and  died  there  Nov. 
27,  IGI'5 — his  widow  Deliverance  surviving  him  many  years, 

having  married  again Smith.     Inventory  of  his  Estate 

sworn  to  by  widow  Deliverance,  Dec.  14,  l(!9o. 

Aug.  12,  1159(3.  Estate  divided,  "To  Deliverance  Eddy, 
wife,  and  her  son  Jonathan  and  two  of  her  daughters,  Susannn 
and  Patience,  to  Eljenezer,  eldest  son,  Eleazer,  second  son, 
elosi'ph,  ]Mary  Keed,  eldest  daughter,  Mercy  Fisher,  second 
daughter,  and  Hannah." 

G  i  Jliiry.'  hova  ]\Iiir.  14,  1GG7;  married Eeed. 

7  ii  Joliu.  J:iii.  19.  1G70. 

8  iii  :\r.Tcy.  July  .".  1(;7:!;  m.  David  Fisher  of  Taunton,  Feb.  7,  1095. 
1)  iv  llaiiiiali.  ])(■(•.  G.  1G7G. 

10  v     Ebeiu'zor,  May  IG.  1G79. 

11  vi    Elca/cr.  Oct.  10.  1G81. 

12  vii   .T()sei)li.  .laii.  4.  1083. 

13  viii  .Foiiatlian.  Doe.  15.  1089. 

14  ix     Susanna.  Sc))t.  IS.  1092. 

15  X      Patience. . Juno  27,  1090. 

3  Zccheriah'  Eddy,  born  1 0.39  ;  married  Alice,  daughte** 
of  Kobert  Paddock,  May  7,  IGGcJ.     Ho  was  of  l*lymout)i, 


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Middlchoro  !ii)(l  Swan/.ry,  wlioro  he  died  Sopl.  4,  171.S.     His 
children  wore  : 

1(1  i      Zcchcriiili.'  h.  April  10.  1(1(11. 

17  ii     Ji)liii.''Oct.  10.  mw. 

18  iii    Klizabctli.^  A  i^nst  K.  1(!70;  in.  Sainiicl.  \Vliii)i>le  of  Providence. 

Ffl).  2(1.  1(){)1. 
10  iv    SaniiH'l.'  .Iiinc  I,  l(i7;i. 

20  V     El)t'n(>zer,»  Feb.  8,  l(i76. 

21  vi    ('!il<"l).3S("|.t.  21.  1078. 

22  vii  .losluia.^  Feb.  21.  KiSl. 
2;j  viii  Obadiab,-'  Sept.  2,  KIHU. 

All  of  whom  had  families  except  Samuel. 


3     Caleb*  Eddy,  1)oni  1043  ;  Avife  Elizal)etli 


,  lived 

in  Swjinzey,  married  ii  Detieon,  and  died  March  23,  1713. 
His  children  were  : 

21  i      Caleb.! ,,_  y^^y  ^l).  I(i72. 
25  ii     Samuel,''  Jidy  15.  1(J75. 
20  iii    Zeclicriah.^  died  soon. 


4     Obadiah'  Eddy,  l)orn  1645,  in  Plymouth  ;  wife 
His  children  were  : 

27  i      .Tolm.^  b.  March  22.  1(570. 

28  ii     lla/.adiah,^  April  10,  l(j72. 


7     John'  Eddy  of  John'  of  Sanniel,'  born  Taunton  Jan. 

19,  1C)70  ;  wife  Ilepsil'ah .     He  died  at  Tisl)ury,  May 

27,  1715,  his  widow  died  May  3,  1720.     In  his  will  he  men- 
tions daughters  Abi'  '>il,  Hannah  Manter,  and  Beulah  Cottin. 

10  Ebenczer'  Eddy,  (of  John')  born  May  IG,  1G79,  in 
Taunton;  married  Mary  Fisher,  1702. 

In  170(5  he  sold  Joseph  Eddy  a  purchase  right.  A^jril  7, 
1713,  he  sold  land  in  Xorton.  In  1720  he  sold  land  to  Eleazer 
Eddy,  "  both  of  Xorton,  and  sons  of  flohn  Eddy  of  Taunton, 
deceased."  In  1727  h(>  sold  laud  to  son  Ichabod.  In  1730, 
February  11,  sold  land  in  Norton  to  Thomas  Morey.  In  1750, 
June  30,  tostitied  at  Taunton,  being  then  in  78th  year  of  his 
age.     December  9,   1750,  spoken  of  as  deceased.     Died  at 


34 

Norton,  :Ma8s.,  between  June  :K)  unci  neeenil)er  9,  ITMI.     His 
children  were  : 

21)  i       Klciizcr.^  b.  Felt.  -J.  iTOU. 

;50  il     Mary."  N<>v.  22.  IKU. 

;n  iii    KlttMic/.t  r,''  April  Kt.  1707, 

:]•>  iv    Siiruli.'  Mny  it.  ITO:.;  «lir,l  Jmi.'  1 1  same  yonr. 

•}■(  V      .Iciviuiiih.^  Feb.  28.  17()'.t. 

■M  vi    Oba.lii.b.-'  Maivb  Ki,  1711 ;  am-asoil  younj?. 

;<:,  vii   Saiiiii.'l.'  AiiKiist  24.  1712. 

HC,  viii  \Vait8till.«  April  4,  171:.;  ni.  Coruolius  Tucker,  Nov.  3,  17.J.). 

;{7  ix    Ichaboil.'' 

II  Kleazer,"  (of  John'  of  Samuel')  born  Taunton,  Oct. 
1(5,  li;,sl.  He  probably  married  first,  Elizabeth  Kandall  in 
Taunton,  March  27,  1701,  and  scecnul,  Elizabeth  Cobb  of 
Taunton,  Feb.  (5,  172H,  by  Kev.  Joseph  Avery.  lie  was  ot 
that  part  of  Taunton  afterward  Ncn-ton,  then  Mansfield. 

Dec    20,  1727,  he  sold  land  to  his  son  Caleb  Eddy  of  Nor- 
ton,  t\,r    (';()    pounds.     .March   2(;,   17;i!»,    Elea/cr    Eddy    of 
Norton  reliiKiuishes  ri-hts   in  estate  of  honored  fatluu-  John 
Eddy  of  Taunton,  to  Joseph  Eddy  of  Taunton,  naming  his 
honored  mother,  Deliverance  Smith,  in  the  deed,     lie  made 
his  will  when  about  oi>  years  of  age,  Nov.   7,  1739,  proved 
Jan.  1';,  1740.     "He  gave  to  eldest  son  John,  who  liveth  at 
Colchester,  Conn.,  to   second  son  Caleb  all  my  carpenter's 
tools,  ;kl  son  Elea/er,  4th  son  Joshua,  Obadiah,  Jonathan  and 
Oliver  not  21  years  of  age.     Jonathan  to  have  new  west  end 

of  house."  ,^^,    , 

Inventory  of  Eleazer  Eddy  of  Norton,  Jan.  2, 1740.  A\  hole 
amount  of  estate  £417,  08d.  lid.  ;  among  other  articles,  best 
suit  clothes,  £2(; ;  Hat,  two  pounds,  10s  ;  Wig,  80  shillings  ; 
Silver  Shoe  liur-klcs,  2H  shillings  ;  Dog,  five  shillings.  In 
1740  Jonathan  Lincoln  and  John  Andrews  appointed  Guar- 
dians of  0]>adiah,  Jonathan  and  Oliver  Eddy,  to  bind  them 
out  as  apprentices  until  they  come  of  age.  (iuardian  account 
rendered  June  11,1748.     The  children  were  : 

38  i       John.'' 
;{■)  il     Caleb.* 
40  iii    Eloazer.* 


35 


His 


II,  Oct. 
idull  in 
(jhh   of 
was  of 
l1. 

of  Nor- 
Iddy  of 
vv  Jolm 
ling  his 
le  made 
,  proved 
livotli  at 
•pontcr's 
tlian  and 
,vest  end 


•M  iv      .TiihIiH!!.* 

4-2  V      Ol.uili.ili.* 

4;j  vl    .liniMthiiii.' 

4t  vll   OliviT.* 

45  viii  Kli/alx'tli;  iii. 


PcillU'V, 


4(!  Ix     Iliuiiiiili;  III.  h'ohfil  Miller  of  Iffhobotli.  Miiicli  T.  172(i. 
47  X     Cliarity;  iii. Itiikcr. 

The  early  records  of  Taunton  havin<?  been  burned  many 
years  since,  no  dates  of  birth  of  cliildren  can  be  found. 

V2     .Tos('[)h '  Eddy  of  John,"  born  in  Taunton  Jan.  4,  1(183. 

Wife    Abi<rail    ,   probably  lived  in   Taunton.     1732, 

Feb.  '),  Joseph  Eddy  of  Taunton,  bought  laud  of  Jonathan 
Eddy  of  Taunton  ;  deed  witnessed  by  Joseph  Eddy  Jr.  and 
Azariah  Eddy. 

i:i  Jonatliau' of  John,' ])orn  in  Taunton  Doc.  ir>,  KiJSt) ; 
pro])ably  lived  in  Taunton.  1740,  Eel).  IH,  Jonathan  Eddy, 
cooper,  of  Taunton,  for  2.'>0  pounds, — part  of  which  I  had 
when  I  gave  a  deed  of  my  honored  father's  homestead,  the 
rest  well  and  truly  received  by  Joseph  Eddy  of  Taunton — 
mentions  brother  John,  who  had  died  in  Outicroft  (?)  island. 

34  Calel)'  Eddy  of  Caleb,'  born  May  29,  1(172  ;  married 
liethiah  Smith  of  Swanzey  in  Taunton  in  1718.  He  lived  in 
Swanzey. 


Whole 
;les,  best 
ihillings  ; 
ngs.  In 
ed  (iuar- 
ind  them 
11  account 


III     Ebenezer*  Eddy  of  Ebenezer,' born  April  1(5,  1707; 

married  Martha  liconard  of  Bridgewater,  1734.    He  and  wife 

joined  chureh  in  Xorton,  1755.     Their  childrennvere  : 

40  i     Mary.*  1).  April.  1".'{7. 
no  ii    Martha.^Taii  1(1.  17:W. 

51  iii  Kliciic/.cr.''  May  ;<.  174.'{. 

52  iv  Kpliraiin."' April  1.  174.'5. 
58  V    ^SIoscs.*  April  4.  1747. 
54  vi  Dobonili.^  May  14,  1750. 

*i9     Samuel*  Eddy  of  Ebenezer,"  born  August  24,  1712, 
died  before  17G1 ;  married  Sarah  Page  of  Kchoboth  April  10, 


3G 


1733,  by  Uov.  Mr.  Avery  of  Norton.     He  lived  in  Norton. 
HiH  ehiklreu  were  : 


Sanih.*  1).  -21)  I><'<''.  l"-'*'- 
lliiiiiiiili.'  l.lmu'.  \7'M. 

n:  ill   ciiiiiity.'  t.iuiK'.  i7:<o. 

58  Iv  Sanmcl.'lH  •'!'"••  1"'^- 
Simoon,*  :<(l  1)<<-.,  1742. 
Fivclovi'.'  It)  Sept..  1741. 

CI  vil    Aniiii.'  -i.")  Miij\  1740. 

02  viil  Coiiitort,'  25  .luiie.  1743. 


t-).-.  I 
5(1  11 


5".t  V 
(50  vl 


lived   in 


J17     IchaLod*   Eddy  of  El)eno/or,«  born  — 
Norton  ;  married  Joanna  Ilerndon  Feb.  0,  1727. 

Son  .Joliii,  h.  I'Vl).  H.  172S. 

Wife  baptised  and  joined  ebureh  in  Norton,  1727. 

In    1727,   Ebene/.er   Eddy  of  Norton,    sold   land   to  son 
Icbabod. 

:I0  Cakl,-  EcWy,  son  of  KU«,™.-,.  of  Nort.m  ;  wife  Ju'lith- 
Hi,  fatlK.,-  d.0,1,.,1  lm«  land  in  Norton,  17-27.  lionght  Innd 
of  brother  .lonatluu,  Ecldy  Nov.  5,  170;i.    llis  children  wore  : 

0:J  I      Kiu-1u;l,"'  1).  .liUH'  2:{.  17;}8 ;  died  1739. 

G4  ii    Abiol,*  April  5,  1740. 

(15  ill    raid).*  .Tan.  25,  1742. 

(ifi  Iv    IJcnaiali.''  I)<'i'.  2S.  1744. 
G(Ji  V      Al)iathar,'' .luni"  1(1.  174G. 

(;7  vi    Miiiy.-'  S.'pt.  10.  1748. 

G8  vH  .lolm.'^.Iaii.  25.  1751. 

0«j  viiiEHjiili,'  August  2,  1752. 

4.2     Obadiah*  Eddy  of  Eleazer,'  of  Norton  ;  married  Lois 
Hicks  of  Tatinton,  July  20,  1744.     His  ehildren  Avere  : 

70  i      Epliraiin.'*  1).  Nov.  17.  1744. 

71  ill    .Tanics.'*  .laii.  12.  174(1. 

72  iv    Obadiah,-'  Mareli  10,  17.51. 

4:1  .lonathan-  Eddy  of  Eloa.cr,>  born  17-2G-7  ;  .narriod 
Mary,  danghter  of  Dr.  William  Ware,  iLay  4,  174.1,  by 
George  Leonard,  Esij. 

[Seo  Appendix  Q.] 


37 


orton. 


ved  in 


to  sou 


Judith. 
;ht  land 
u  were : 


riod  Lois 
'c : 


;  married 
174U,   by 


Jmio  22,  174H,  hoiijilit  a  house  of  CJeor^je  Leoiianl,  Esq. 
for  £:)().     17:).'),  Feb.  IH,  .lona.  Kddy  of  Xorton,  lion^rlit  land 
of  Robert  Cook  of  Norton,  near  land  of  lieirH  of  Klienezer 
Eddy.     17.')(),  .lona.  ICddy  of  Xorton,  Lr<'nfleinan,  sold  lanl  to 
Samuel  Neweomb  of  Norton  ;  wife  Mnry  si«;ned.     17(!1,  Oct. 
23,  .lona.  Eddy  of  Xorton,  sold  land  in   Xorton  to  Klkauidi 
Lincoln  of  Xorton,  boiindetl  on  one  side  by  land  beloM<rinfr  to 
hind  of  heii'H   of  Sininicl    Eddy,  deccjised.      17II2,    April   7, 
Jona.    Eddy   of   Xorton,  sold    to   Edmund   Hod^'es   laud    iii 
old  towusliii)  of  Taunton,  undivided,  ori<;inally  l)cl()n<iiu<i:  t<> 
John  .Alaeomber.     17(12,  June  21,  Jonatliau  Eddy  of  Xorton, 
for  £201)  Hi  shilliii^jTs,  sold  land  to  Samuel  Hunt  and  Xehe- 
miah  Lineoln,  both  of  Xorton — iu   Xortou,  bouiuled   on  ono 
side    by    land   of  Caleb    Eddy;    wife    Mary    sijrned.      1702, 
Auir.  (),  Nehemiah  Lineoln  and  Sanniel  Iluut  both  of  Norton, 
havin*:;  jointly  l»ou;ilil  homestead  farm  of  Captain  .Jonathan 
Eddy,  divided  it.     17(;3,  Nov.  f),  .Jonatliau  Eddy  of  Cumber- 
land, X.  S.,  gentleman,  sold  Caleb  Eddy  of  Xorton,  undivided 
land  in  old  townshi|)  of  Taunton,  ori.uinally  t)WU(Ml  by  .lolin 
Maeomber  aiul  formerly  owned   by  Ebenezer   ICddv,  late  of 
Norton,  deceased;  before  (Jeorge  Leonard,  Est].,  in  Xorton, 
Nov.  5,  17(58.     In  17(ir),  he  sold  Abial  Atwood  of  Oxford,  a 
negro  Aveneh,  for  40  pouiuls.      [Mi:m.    Wlii-u  he  removed  to 
^hune,  he  brought  a  negro  man  wiili  him,  "lilaek  Jack;" 
Avhether  he  was  a  slave  or  not,  I  do  not  know.     If  so,  he  was 
probably  the  only  slave  owiu'd  on  Penobscot  river.     Maj. 
Robert  Treat  charged  Col.  Eddy  in  account  Alar.  4,  1788,  to 
upsetting  an    axe   for  "  Riack  Jack."]      In    i7()7,   Fel),    27, 
bought  laud  in  Cianberlaud,  N.  8.     In  17(i!l,  Feb.  14,  sold 
land  in  Cumberland  as  Provost  Marshal.     After  Revolutionary 
war    settled    in    Sharon,    Mass.     Taxed    there    1781-2-.V4. 
April   17,    1781,    Elkauah   Iliekson  sold  .lonathan  FACy  of 
Nova  Scotia,   estate  with  dwelling  house  and  barn,  for  1H.5 
l)ounds,  in  Stoughtonham— ruow  Sharon,  Alass.     Paid  Xath. 
l.illings  1020  pounds  in  full  for  work  at  Stoughtonham  fur- 
nace.    In  1780,  bought  of  Saumel  Forest,  ,Ir.,  "one  P>iug  of 
Coal,  1100  Bushels," for  3,000  pounds,  near  Melotiali  Ware's 


38 

in  Foxborough."     1782,  :\[ay  8,  sold  Ehoiio/or  rvichardson, 

farnier,  liind  in  Stou.iihtonhani,  for  437  Si  aiiisli  niilU-d  dollars. 

178"),  ]May  17,  Jonathan   Kddy  of  Sharon,  for   10(5  ponnd., 

sold  Jnnics  IVrrigo  of  AVriuithani,  Mass.,  two  pieces  of  land 

in  ^^'rentham,  one  of  45  acres,  one  of  six  acres.     Jonathan 

Ware  witness  to  deed.    His  children,  all  born  in  what  is  now 

Manslield,  Mass.,  were  : 

7;i  i  .I.iiiailuiii.'  1).  .Ian.  2S.  IT.")!). 

74  ii  WilliiUii.'^  August  t(j.  17.")2. 

7.')  iii  Ihrook.^  .Ian.  !).  17."i4. 

70  Iv  Klias.''  \ov.  ;i().  17r)7. 

Col.  Jonathan  Eddy  died  Angust,  1804,  ro.  78;  Widow 
INIary  Eddy  died  1814. 

44  Oliver*  Eddy  of  Eleazer,^  of  Seabrook  county  of  New 
London,  Conn.,  sold  land  and  house  in  Norton,  "wiiichniy 
father,  Eleazer  Eddy,  gave  me  in  his  will,  Dec  2,  17,51." 

rJI  Jonathan*  Eddy  Jr.  of  Jonathan,*  born  in  :\Ianstield, 
Jan.  '2S,  17,50;  married  Rebecca  Hicks.  He  was  cast  away 
in  the  Bay  of  Fnndy  1808.  Ili.^  widow  Avas  living  in  Sack- 
ville,  N.  13.,  1848. 

[Sco  Appendix  I.] 

74     Lieut.  William*  Eddy  of  Jonathan,*  born  in  Mans- 
field, i^ug.  l(i,  17.52  ;  married  Olive  Morse.     He  was  u  Lieut 
in  the  Continental  Army,  and  was  killed  by  a  shot   from   a 
r.ritish  frigate  while  in  an  ojx'n  boat  near  Eastport,  May  ;>, 
177H.      He  had  one  son  : 

77  i     William  ,Ir.  b.  in  Siickvillc  X.  S..  (now  X.  I?.)  -Inly  1.  177.".. 

"Sept.  27,  1777,  a  ilag  of  truce  was  granted  to  bring  from 
Nova  Scotia  the  family  of  William  Eddy." 

7."»  Ibrook*  P^ddy  of  Jonathan,*  born  in  Mansfield,  Mass., 
Jan.  ;»,  17,54.  He  married  Lona,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Pratt,  2d,  of  Mansticld,  Nov.  2d,  177S;  she  born  May  0, 
17(50.     Ho  went  to  Nova  Scotia  with  his  f'ltliei-  in  17(1 1,  and 


39 


was  one  of  the  rofiigocs  from  tluit  Provinco  during  the  Eovo- 
lutionary  War,  for  which  he  rceeived  a  grant  of  land  in  what 
is  now  Eddington,  Me.  He  was  a  Deputy  Slierill"  in  liristol 
county,  Mass.,  and  resided  in  ]\IansHeld  nntil  about  17(S5, 
when  he  removed  to  Maine  to  what  is  now  Eddington.  First 
wife  died  a1)out  1802.  He  married  second,  Celia  Wihle. 
He  died  Jan.,  1.S34,  and  his  second  wife  died  May  23,  1842. 
His  children,  all  of  Hrst  wife,  were  : 
78  i  ,T()iiiitliiin.«  1).  ]\[:iiisticl(l  Jan.  :{1.  17S();  died  yonns;. 
71)  ii      Kxpcrieiit.'e,''         do        .June  .">.  17S2;  ilicd  July  10,  1791. 

do        May  :{.  1784. 
Eddiugtoii.  Aiijriist  8.  1780  ;m.  Daniel  follhis. 

do  Ft'l).  22.  1788  ;  m.  Closes  Collins. 

do  Oct.  10.  1781);  m.  Sylvia  CaiiiiilicU. 

do  Scjit.  2!».  1701  :  ni.  Moses  Knapp- 

do  Nov.  20.  i70;{:  ni.  Jesse  ('oniiiis. 

do  A\igu,<t  21.  1700:  m.  Ueiiali  Clap]). 

do  Ai)ril  10.  ISOO;  ni.  Gcsor^i;  Crane. 


80  iii  Ware." 

81  iv  Nancy,* 
2  v  Ilacliel." 

83  vi  Eleazer."* 

84  vii  Ahagail." 
8")  viii  Mary." 
80  ix  Sylvia." 

87  X  Kxpericnce," 


70    Klias  Eddy*  of  Jonathan,*  born  in  Mansfield,  Nov.  30, 
17')1  ;  married  Mary  Fales.    He  lived  and  died  in  Eddington, 
Me.     Their  children  were  : 
88  i       Lovina.  m.  Xatli.  llinekley  of  IJiilTalo.  X.  Y. 
80  ii       Uetsey.  ni.  Itev.  Klisha  Medcl. 
00  iii    Oliver,  ni.  Widow  Gates  llatliorn  of'Eddiii.^toii ;  lier  maiden  name 

was  Mann. 
91  iv     William,  went  to  New  York  about  1810. 
02  v      lOxiierience.  m.  Capt.  Wrij-'lit  Stockwcdl  of  Eddin.irton. 
0;{  vi     Mary.ni.  Wev.  Ahraliam  IJedelof  Camden.  1S;J2;  since  of  (ianliner. 
04  vii    Kdward.  was  i)rouj;lit  n])  l)y  his  uncle.  ll)rook  Eddy;  and  v,-as 
drowned  near  where  the  corporation  mills  now  are  at  Veazie, 
Me.,  in  1817. 


*  An^'i'liiin,  diiuglitiT  of  Kk'ii/.or,  boni  in  EddingtciU,  Uv.,  Aufjust  .'i,  1818;  Uiod  in 
13urlinj;tun,  Mo.,  April  'J'2,  lSti!»;  miirrifil  ChiU'lcs  S.  Kiuhiirilson  (son  (if  E/ni)  of  Hur- 
lington,  Ml'.,  in  18;id.  He  born  in  .lay.  Mo.,  Fob.  U,  1813.  Tlioir  cliil.hon  all  born 
in  Burlington. 

(ioorgo  A.,  b.  Get.  1,  18;!T;  ilrownocl  .Uily  11,  18.'.G. 

Jamo.s  M.,  March  12,  1»;!'J;  (liod  April  11,  18;!<,). 

Charles  H.,  Doc.  ;U,  1840;  marriod,  lives  in  liradloy.  Me. 

Charlotte  E.,  .luly  ti,  181 1;  died  August  2'J,  18.-.U. 

Francetta  S.,  June  2;!,  1847;  died  August  Li,  18.)2. 

Edv,  in  M.,  April  11,  18411;  died  August  22,  18.')0. 

Frank  W.,  June  l.'i,  Ib.'il. 

Addiv  M.,  April  1,  is.".;!;  ■.narried  Ebeii  Files  of  Curbiuii,  Me. 


40 

rr  AVilliain«  Eddy,  Jr.,  of  William,*  horn  Sackvillc, 
N.  S.,  (now  N.  B.)  .Inly  1,  1775  ;  dicdift  Corinth,  Mo.,  Jan. 
22,  1852  ;  married  in  Eddington,  Rachel  P.  Knapp,  Novomhcr 
17,  171X),  l)y  licv.  Seth  Xoldc,  She  was  horn  in  Mansiicdd, 
Mass.,  May  22,  177!t,  and  died  in  Corinth  July  11,  18(59, 
aged  1>0  years. 

1  here  give  an  article  from  the  Bangor  Jeffersonian  of  Feb. 
10,  1852,  prol)ahly  written  by  Hon.  Noah  Barker.*  Their 
children  Avere  : 


*  Died.     In  Corinth,  on  tho  22d  ult.,  Williiuu  EiWy,  Esq.,  agod  76  yrs.,  G  mos.  and 

22  days. 

His  death  was  occasioned  by  his  falling  through  tho  flooring  of  a  scaffold  over  the 
beams  of  liis  barn  to  tho  throsliing-floor,  a  dintanco  of  18  foot ;  breaking  several  of  his 
bonos,  and  causing  other  injuries,  from  which  ho  died  in  a  few  hours  after  ho  was 
found.  Ho  was  alono  at  tho  time  of  tho  accident,  and  was  not  discovered  until  about 
three  hours,  as  is  supposed,  after  tho  sad  and  painful  <■.     urronce. 

Mr.  Eddy  was  a  native  of  Sackvillo,  N.  15.,  formerly  "  Fort  Lawrence,"  and  in  the 
vicinity  of  "  Fort  Cumberland,"  to  which  place  his  father,  and  grandfather,  tho  lato 
Col.  Jonathan  Eddy,  removed  from   Xurton,  .Mass.,  soon  after  the  close  of  tlie  French 
War.     Col.  Eddy  had  served  in  that  War,  and  in  lT.'i4,  assisted  in  erecting  tVo  fortifi- 
cations on  tho  Kennebec  river,  called  "  Fort  ilalifa.x,"  and  "  Fort  Western.  '     At  the 
commencoment  of  the  War  <if  the  Revolution,  the  father  and  grandfather  of  ilr.  Eddy, 
being  among  the  many  families  then  living  in  tlie  Troviuco  who  wore  connected  by 
tho  tics  of  consanguinity  or  interest  with  the  people  of  .Massachusetts,  and  who  hi.pcd 
to  sec  that  Province   a   member  of  tho    .\merican  Confederacy,  espoused    the  cause  of 
Liberty,  and    were   both,    8ul)se(|Uontly,  oflicers   of  tho   army,  commissioned   by    the 
authority  of  Massachusetts.     Living  as  they  did   in  the  enemy's  country,  their  service 
became  of  much  importance  to  the  American  cau^-e.     Among  their  bold  and  hazardous 
exploits,  was  that  of  attacking  a  vessel  of  100  tons  as  she  lay  aground,  in  the  harbor, 
and  making  a  prize  of  her!     She  was   richly  laden   with  supplies  and  military  stores 
for  the  garrison.     These  they  conveyed  to  Ik.ston.     Exasperated  at  these  " ,mlri,yr.s;" 
as  thoy  termed  them,  the  Provincials  became  desperate,  and  otl'ered  a  reward  for  tho 
heads  of  the  "n/W.v,"  and  wantonly  set  iire  to  their  dwellings.     Finding  thi,if  there 
was  no  other  alternative,  tho   patriots  were  compelled  to  leave  their  families  in  the 
extreme  depths  of  distress,  and,  in  the  severities  of  winter,  llee  through  the  wilderness 
to  Machias,  whore  "they  successfully  arrived,  half-naked  and  famished,  liaving  boon 
in  tho  woods  twenty-tive  days."     Tho  i.dlowing  spring,  while  Lieut.  Wm.  Eddy,  tho 
father  of  tho  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  on  his  way  to  the  Pr..viiice,  with  tlu)  intention 
of  bringing  away  his  family,  he  was  reoogni/.ed   by  a   Provincial,  fired  uiiuu  ami  mor- 
tally wounded,  while  sailing  in  an  open  boat   near  Eastport,  to  which  place  his  body 
was  stealthily  conveyed  by  one  of  the   patriots— the  J«^/»r  of  the  lato  Hon.  William 
Deles.lernier,  of  Bailey  villi— and  his  remains  were  interred  by  him  in  his  own  garden 
at  Eastport.     Mr.  Eddy  was  thus  left  an  orphan   in   the  third  year  of  his  age.     These 
circumstances  are  related  to  show    tho   loun.lation   of  those    habits  uf  industry  which 
characterized  him  in  aftcT  life,     llecomiiig  early  inured  to  hardships  and  privations, 
bo  soon  learned  to  depend  solely  upon  his  own  exertions  for  obtaining  tho  moans  of 


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95  i 

Jonathan  M 

lynanl,  b 

.  Ed(linf?to 

n,  Oct.  22,  1797. 

l)(i  ii 

Olivo  M., 

do 

August  15,  1799. 

07  iii 

Willard.     • 

do 

May  24,  1801. 

98  iv 

IJoxanna, 

do 

August  10.  1803. 

99  V 

Sylvester, 

do 

Oct.  21.  1S05. 

100  vi 

Toini)<'rance 

B.. 

do 

Feb.  9,  1815. 

101  vii  :\rana  I...  Covinth.  July  27.  1818. 

102  viiiCbailesK.,     do        Dec.  29,  1820, 

80  Ware'  Eddy  of  Ibrook,*  born  in  :Mansficia,  Mass., 
May  3,  1784,  died  Eddington,  Xovcnil)er  20,  1^.52;  Married 
first,  Nancy  Clapp  by  Park  Holland,  Esq.,  1801);  she  was 
born  Walpole,  Mass.,  M:iy  3,  1784,  died  March  23,  1829. 
:Married  second,  Olive  Foster,  by  Luther  Eaton,  Esq.,  April 
11,  1830;  she  was  born  in  Winthrop,  Mc,  March  3,  1800. 
His  children,  all  born  in  Eddington,  Avere  : 

103  i       Jonatban.  1).  August  i ,  1811. 

104  ii      Lucy  Clapp,  August  3.  1813;  ni.  Horace  Bbickuian  Nov.  27,  1835. 

105  iii     Lona  Pratt.  July  15.  1815;  died  July  23.  181S. 

100  iv  Celia  Wilde.  Sept.  10,  1817;  m.  Edwin  Eddy  Jan.  23,  1840. 

107  V  Darius  W.,  August  17,  1819. 

108  vi  ]S[ercy  AVilde.  June  28.  1821 ;  died  July  4,  1821. 
10!)  vii  Lona  I'ratt,  August  31.  1822;  died  March  17.  1824. 

110  viii  Nancy  Clapp.  Dee.  22,  1824;  m.  Newell  Avery  Jan.  3,  1843. 

111  ix    Eliza  Holland.  Feb.  27,  1827 ;  ni.  Sewall  Avery  ISlay  13,  1849. 

112  X      Cyrus.  Nov.  8.  1830. 

113  xi     Ware,  April  0,  1834. 

114  xii    Marion,  Sept.  4.  1838;  ni.  E/ra  Ricliardsou  Dec.  1,  1805.    Died 

at  Saginaw,  Mich..  April  10.  18(!7. 

115  xiii   Lavi'nia.  Sept.  2,  1842;  m.  Henry  Foster  Nov.  20.  1852. 

S»    Eleazer'  oflbrook,*  born  in  luldington,  Oct.  10,  1790  ; 
died  March   13,    182t;,  aged  3G.     Lived  in  Eddington,  ]Me. 


subsbtonoo  and  has  ever  boun  nuted  fur  hU  untiring  pcr.ovorenoo.  At  tho  ago  of 
tliirt.o.i,  Mr.  Eddy  bade  adieu  to  the  Pruviiico,  leaving  beliind  hiui  his  mother,  an 
ouly  brother  and  Mstor,  and  camo  to  Eddington,  a  portion  of  which  township  had  boon 
granted  by  MuB.sichu.etts  to  his  grandfather  and  uthers,  in  eon>ideration  of  thoir  sor- 
viees  in  the  Revolution.  In  tho  autumn  of  17'J2,  Mr.  E.  assisted  in  closing  up  tho 
survey  of  tho  "  twenty-one  townships  "  west  of  tho  Penobscot  river,  and  lying  botwoon 
tho  Waldo  patent  and  tho  Piscataquis. 

He  married  soon  after,  and  settled  in  Eddington,  where,  with  an  increasing  family, 
ho  resid.d  till  .Jan.  1K18,  when  ho  removed  to  Corinth,  where  l.y  industry  and  frugality 
he  has  accumulated  a  valuable  estate,  and  has  over  been  esteemed  a  worthy  and  ro- 
.pvetablo  citizen;  and  dies  much  lamented,  not  only  by  his  family,  who  aro  thus 
called  to  mourn  his  sudden  exit,  but  by  all  who  had  Iho  pleasure  of  his  acciuaiutance. 


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Married  Sylvia,  divuglitcr  of  Thomas  and  Sal)ara  (Kiinpp) 
CamplR'll,  March  20,  ISU.  She  was  born  Nov.  14,  17i)3; 
died  April  30,  iJSdO.     Their  children  were  : 

llfi  i       'riiiiotliy.  b.  Feb.  12.  1815. 

117  ii      Edwin.  .Inn.  IS.  1S17. 

118  iii    Angelina.  Aii<jiist.  1S18. 

11!)  iv    Elca/ci-  P..  \  Twins.     Died  Oct.  7. 1834. 

120  V      Jlonry  ('..    )  born  May  24,  1821 ;  died  August  2. 18.50. 

121  vi     Sabara.  Au^nist  20.  1S2:J;  ui.  AVm.  E.  Hanson. 

122  vii   Ware,  August  lil.  18,'!");  ni,  Mary  E.  Doten. 

"Widow  Sylvia  Eddy  married  Ezra  Kiehardson  of  Burling- 
ton, Maine,  April  30,  1860,  by  whom  she  had  : 

Jfary  Ann.  b.  Feb.  1.  18.32;  died  .July  0.  lS,-)4. 

Cordelia  P.,  Xov.  28.  1S;{;{:  died  DfC.  lit,  183;}. 

Lloyd  Quincy.  :\lay  11.  18;!.");  ni.  Mrs.  Mary  Taylor.  June,  180G. 

Ezra,  Xov.  7.  ls:i8;  ni.  Marion  P.  Eddy.  Dec.  1.  18(i,-}. 

Esquire  Richardson  died  June  14,  1838,  and  his  widoAV 
April  30,  18G0. 

90  Oliver*  of  Elias*  Eddy;  married  widoAv  Gates  Ilath- 
orn,  her  maiden  name  being  ]\Iann.  lie  lived  in  Eddington 
and  died  during  the  war  of  1812,  leaving  two  childr'ii,  Curtis 
Eddy  and  Charles  Eddy. 

9*i  Jonathan  ]M.^  of  "William,*  born  in  Eddington  Oct. 
22,  17*.)7  ;  mai-ried  Eliza  ^Morrill  of  Cornville,  Me.,  April  3, 
1825.  She  was  born  Jan.  20,  17S»8;  died  August  5,  187(J. 
Their  children  are  : 

123  i       Il.nry  :^I..  b.  Corintb.  Jan.  1(1. 182(i;  ni.  Adelia  A.  Gammon.  Soi)t. 

2'J.  ]8.-);}. 

124  ii      Luoia  Aim,  Corintli.  August  IG,  18;52;  m.  Ur.  E.  A.  Thomjjson  of 

Dover.  Me..  May  Vi.  18.'i8. 

125  iii    John  Nelson.  August  2(i.  18.'{7;  m,   Emily  G.   lluestis.  Xov.  IS), 

18G8.     Kesides  in  Ciiieago. 


96  Olive ^  M.  Eddy  of  William,*  born  in  Eddington, 
August  15,  1799,  died  Dec.  24,  1857;  married  Samuel  K. 
Campbell,  May  10,  1820. 


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120  i       Emclino."  h.  Doc.  27.  1820;  diod  1821. 

127  ii      Ht'ii)iiinin«  F..  August  22.  1822;  in.  Clara  E.  Bryant,  Feb.  7,  1847. 

128  iii    Olive"  F.,  Corinth,  Doc  8,  IS.-.f). 
120  iv    Clara'*  A..  Dec.  12.  18r)7. 

130  V      Ilattie'*  B..  Nov.  27,  1800 ;  died  Feb.  22,  ISGl. 

131  vi    Frank*  M.,  .Tunc  10.  18fi4. 

132  vii   Charles"  K.,  .hine  10,  18G0. 

• 
Willavd'  Eddy  of  William,'  1)oru  in  Eddington  May 
24,  IHOl,  died  in  Corinth  June  10,  18(;(5 ;  married  Elizabeth 
Goodwin  of  St.  Albans,  April  9,  1H28.     Their  children  Avere  : 

133  i       Olive  .lane.  b.  :>[areh  4.  1830:  m.  Virgil  Brown  Jan.,  1840. 

134  ii      Hophrunia,  Mareh  21,  1834;  ni.   Rev.  I'orter  M.  Vinton,  August, 

1800. 

135  iii    3Iary  E.,  June  21,  1800;  m.  Geo.  P.  Ilueston,  April  Ki.  1801. 

98  Roxana^  Eddy  of  AVilliain,'  born  in  Eddington,  Aug. 
10,   1<S0;J ;  married  John  Campbell  of  Corinth,  Feb.   10, 

1831.     Several  children  died  in  infancy. 
Martin,  b.  June,  1837;  ni.  Sarah  J.  Daniels  May.  1800. 

99  Sylvester'  of  AVillianu*  born  in  Eddington,  Oct.  21, 
1805.  First,  married  Almira  Goodwin  of  St.  All)ans,  Jan.  6, 
183(5;  she  died  Dec.  11,  181)9.  Second,  married  Mrs. 
Meliitable  AVilliams,  Dec.  17,  1.S71 ;  she  born  Ossipee,  N.  H., 
Sept.  13,  1828.     He  lives  in  Corinth.     His  children  are  : 

130  i      Franeis"  A.,  b.  :\Iarcli  3.  1838;  ni.  George  V.  Blacknian  Sept.  IS.V,). 

137  il    llatuiibar  11  .  July  'k  1840:  m.  Mary  Burnhani  :SIay  4.  1870. 

138  iii   lloinian"  J.,  Sept.  10.  1847;  ni.  Eliza  Dcvers  April  20,  1870. 
130  iv   Hiram'*  E.,  Mareli  21,  18.J0. 

lOO  Temperance T  of  AVilliam,"  born  Feb.  9,  1815,  in 
Eddington  ;  married  lion.  Noah  IJarker  Dec.  29,  1839,  he 
born  in  Exeter,  Me.,  Nov.  14,  1807.    "Their  children  are  : 

140  i    George-*  Barker,  b.  in  Exeter  June  1.  1841;  ni.  >Iary  F.  I.atliam 

Sept.  2.  1808,  in  St.  George.  X.  H.  She  Ijorn  in  Greontiekl,  Me., 
Feb.,  1851.     Bi'sides  in  Presque  Isle. 

141  ii    Cliarles'^V.,  b.  hi  Exeter  Sept.  22.  1848;  m.  Lzizie  E.  Folsom  of 

Exeter.  Me..  Dee.  1,  1872.  She  born  in  Exeter.  Me..  April  11. 
18r)3.  and  died  there  July.  187.").  h'avingoue  child,  Noah  V.  Barker. 
The  t'ailier  resides  in  Clneago,  111. 


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1  {*2  iii  Willinni  E..  April  18, 1852.    Ilcsidos  with  parents  on  old  lionicstcad 

at  ('o'intli. 
143  iv  Xi'liie  Aretlnisa.  b.  Jnly  22,  1858. 

101     MiU'ia^    L.    Eddy   of    William,'    l)ora   in   Corinth, 

Jnly  27,  l<sl,S  ;  married  Tho.s.  J.  Haines  of  Levant,  May  22, 

1853.     He  born  in  Portsmonth  Nov.   25,  181(5.     Lives  in 

Corinth,  ^le.     Their  childr'  -   r.ra  : 

"SVilliani  T..  b.  Anjjust  7.  18,").'). 

Fred  A.,  8ept.  12.  18r)i);  d.  Dec.  G,  1SG3. 

Franlv  E.,  Sept.  2,  18G1. 

lO'^     Charles'  K.  of  William,"  l)orn  in  Corinlh,  Dec.  29, 

182U;  married  All)ina,  daughter  of  Col.   John  Dunning  of 

Charleston,  July  31.  1853.     Their  children  are  : 

Walter  Stanley,  b.  Corlntli.  .Tune  17.  IS"),"). 

Arthur  Dunning,  Ottawa.  Canada.  Jnly  27.  18G1. 

Charles  Kirl<.  Sajjinaw.  Miehijjan.  August.  18(;7. 

IJla.  Saginaw.  Michigan,  1870;  resides  East  Saginaw,  Mich. 


103  Col.  Jonathan'  Eddy  of  AVare,'  born  in  Eddington, 
August  12,  1811 ;  died  in  liaugor,  August  24,  18(15,  aged  54 
years,  23  days.  INIarried  Caroline,  daughter  of  Amos  and 
Sally  (r.allard)  Bailey  of  .Milford,  March  5,  1839  ;  Mrs  Eddy 
born  in  .M i  Iford ,  J  uly  9,1819. 

[Sl'o  Appoiulix  Q.] 

Their  children  are  : 

i       Laura'' M..  b.  Bradley.  August  12.  1840;  ni.  Edward  E.  Parker  of 

Bangor.  Oct.  11).  18(i4.  and  has  two  children, 
ii      Sarah-  Bailey.  Bradley,  August  3,  1842;  d.  Feb.  2.").  18li2. 
iii    Candini-    M..   IJradley.  Oct.   11.  1844;  ni.  Charles  L.  Hamblen  ot 

Boston,  .lune  22.  18(m,  and  has  two  children. 
iv    Fre.leric''  A.,  Bradley,  August  23,  184G. 
V      .lolui'' Fraid<lin.   Baiigtu-.  Feb.   23.   1S(8;  ni.  Lottie  Whittennn-e  of 

Bonie.  N.  V.;  lias  two  children,     j.'esides  in  IJay  Cily.  Michigan. 
vi    Cliarles'  F.,  Bangor.  :>[ar('h  21.  lS."i2;  ni.  Elizabetli  <ienn  of  Bucks- 

])(>rl.  .Ian.  2S.  1S7I.  and  has  two  childi'en. 
vii  Xeweir  Avery.  Bangor.  May  2U.  is:)(i;  now  in  Vale  College. 

Moved  from  Bradley  to  Bangor  in  spring  of  1847.  ., 


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107  Darius'  of  Wavo,'  born  Aujrust  17,  1S19;  married 
first,  Eliza  JUackinjui  of  P.radloy,  March  5,  l.S4!»,  she  died 
March  5,  1854  ;  married  second,  Elizahoth  C.  Tapk-y  in  Old- 
town,  Feb.  la,  1805,  she  born  in  Brooksvillo  Sept.  7,  1833. 
Chikh-on  : 

i  Eli/a  B..  b.  Milfonl,  Deo.  2.  18."). 

ii  Etta  M..  do        Jan.  27.  ISOO. 

iii  Jvlwi;,  T'..         do        Xov.  S.  ISUS. 

Iv  AViiltcr  1)..  ]}iiuj;or,  Jan.  0,  1870. 

Removed  from  Milford  to  Bangor  in  1870. 

117  Edwin'  of  Eleazcr,'  born  Jan.  18,  1817;  married 
Celia  W.  Eddy  of  AVarc,  Jan.  23,  1840,  she  born  Sept.  10, 
1817.     Their  chiklren  Avcre  : 

Geori;."  ('..  b.  -fan.  24.  1S41 ;  died  Feb.  20.  1843. 
14:{  Naiicv  yi..  Aiij-iist  14,  1842;  m.  Temple  E.  Dorr.  Feb.  8.  ISfiG. 

Ellen  A..  Xov.  ;{.  184:5;  m.  Au-instus  Clark,  Jan.  28,  1807;  daughter  b. 
April  27.  1840.  died  May  24,  1840. 
144  S(.l\v\u.  March  25.  1847;  m.  Cornelia  C.  Hall.  Sept.  21.  18(!0. 
14,j  diaries  A..  .March  \r>.  184',);  ni.  Harriet  L.  Lane.  Dec.  20.  1871. 

Lucy  E..  April  14.  IS.ll,  died  June  2:J,  1870. 

Children  all  born  in  Bradley,  Me.    Removed  from  Bradley, 
Me.,  to  Saginaw,  Mich.,  December,  18G3. 

110     Newall  Avery,   born  in  Jefferson,   j\te.,    Oct.    12, 
1817,  died  March  13,  1877  ;  married  Nancy  Clapp  Eddy*  at 
Bradley,  :Mc.,  Jan.  3,  1843.     Subjoined  is  a  paragraph  from 
Their  children  are : 


Bangor  AVhig.* 


»  A  telognuu  announcing  the  cionth  of  Ilun.  Newoll  Avory,  of  Detroit,  Michigan, 
in  that  city,  Tuesday  evening,  March  13,  after  a  very  short  illness,  was  roceivod  on 
that  evening  by  his  relatives  in  this  city. 

Mr.  Avery  was  formerly  a  resicknt  of  Bradley.  Ho  came  there  when  a  young  man 
from  his  homo  in  Jotferson,  near  Augusta.  While  a  resident  of  Bradley  and  for 
several  years  after  his  removal  to  the  West,  he  was  a  member  of  the  hrm  of  Eddy, 
Murphy  &  Co.,  of  this  city.  He  left  this  State  for  Michigan  about  tweuty-hve  years 
since  and  has  since  been  one  of  the  largest  operators  in  lumber  and  land  in  the  West. 
Ho  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Avery  &  Murphy  of  Detroit,  Avory,  Murphy  &  Co., 
of  Chicago,  and  Eddy,  Avery  &  Co.,  of  East  Saginaw,  and  he  was  also  in  company 
with  numy  others  from  this  State  n.ostly.  Mr.  Avery  in  his  business  has  by  h.s 
sagacity  and  close  application  been  very  successful. 


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Edwnnl  O.,  1).  Hradlcy.  Mc.  Oct.  2;i.  1844;  in.  Flma  Tliintiiifjton.  Sept. 
14.  ISIU). 

Diuius  N..  Hradlcy.  Jii'i.  10.  184C;  m.  Elizabeth,  ilaii{,'liter  of  Clms  E. 
Dolt'.  Haiifior.  Me.,  .June  24,  ISTIJ. 

Leonard  C,  Hiadley.  Oct.  18.  1847.  died  1853. 

Clara  A..  do        Jan.  12.  IS")*). 

Nannie  .M..        do         May  KJ.  IS.Vi. 

Geor;,'e  E..  Tort  ilnron.  Midi..  Ajiril  18,  1854. 

Joiin  if..  IJradley.  Me..  .Inly  2!t.  IS.^'). 

Horace  W.,  Tort  lliirou,  April  12.  lS,-)8. 

KellieJ.,  do  April  27.  18(50. 

Infant.  do  18(;2.  ilied  1S(!2. 

Art  Imr  Wave,        do  18(1.'}.  died  18(14. 

Kitty  M.,  do  18(5G.  died  18(17. 

Harry  E.,  Detroit,  Jlicli..  Deo.  3,  1807. 

Ill     Scwell  Avery,  1).   JottVrson,    Mc,    Fol).   2,    1824; 
marrlod   Eliza  II.  Eddy'   at   Bradley,   Mc,   :May  3,   lcS4y. 

Children  are : 

Waldo  A..  1).  in  Bradley.  May  14,  1850;  m.  Xellle  C.  Lee.  at  Sa<i;ina\v, 
Mich..  Fel).  18.1871.  Children— Sewell  Lee.  b.  Saginaw,  Nov.  4.  1873; 
Aria  S..  Saginaw.  May  11.  ]87r). 

Ara  I...  Bradley.  Marcli  K!.  18.")3;  in.  Herbert  C.  Sanborn,  at  Saginaw, 
Oct.  3(1.  1873.    Child— Herbert  W..  b.  August  15.  1874. 

idella  E..  Bradley.  Nov.  10.  1854. 

Lulie  E.,  Bradley.  Oct.  11).  18.59. 

Lives  ill  East  S.nginaw,  jNIich. 

lis     Angeline^  Eddy  of  Eleazer,*   born  Aiig-ust,    1818; 
miirried  Charles  8.  Kiehardson  of  Burlington,  deeeased. 

11:1     Nancy  M.'  of  Edwin,'  born  August  14,  1842 ;  mar- 
ried Temple  K.  Dorr,  Feb.  8,  iSOt).     Children: 
Earth  K..  b.  April  17.  1873. 
Cin-a  M..  May  2!).  1S74. 
Florence  C,  May  30.  1870. 

Ho  WHS  liiviil  and  I'ospi'oted  by  all  who  know  him,  ever  ready  and  nioro  than  willing 
to  extend  a  helping  hand  to  all  worthy  persons,  kind  hearted,  genial,  upright  and 
hononihle;  he  leaves  behind  him  as  tlie  most  precious  possession  of  his  children—  his 
untarnished  name  and  bright  record  in  every  walk  of  life. 

Except  that  ho  was  for  one  year  Mayor  of  Port  Huron,  where  ho  lived  tho  first 
twelve  years  or  so  after  moving  to  Michigan,  wo  think  ho  has  never  held  public  office, 
the  c:iru3  of  his  extensive  business  requiring  all  his  time,  but  ho  has  always  taken 
great  interest  in  public  affairs  and  was  one  of  tho  prominent  members  uf  tho  Repub- 
lican party  in  Mieliigan. 


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141     Scln-in'  of  Edwin,"  lun-n  M,m\\  25,  1847  ;  miirriecl 

Cornelius  C.  Hall  Sept.  21,  iSOi).     Children: 

(•laniF.,1).  Feb.  11.1873. 
Ellii  M.,  April  18,  1875. 

1.1.1     Chiirlcs  A."  of  Edwin,"  l)oni  March  15,  1849  ;  mar- 
ried Harriet  L.  Lane  Dec.  20,  1871.     Children  : 

Lottie  C.  1).  Miirch4.  1873. 
Flora  E..  Nov.  18,  1874. 


I 


APPEXDTXES. 


A. 

A  Riito  Bill  for  llic  Plantation  culled  Eddinton,  on  Pcnol)- 
sool  Jiivcr,  for  the  year  ITKl. 

Rksidents,                     Tax.                     Non  Residents,  Tax. 

B.       (1.  8,  d. 

Jaitu'S  Xicliols.                            4      1    riiiiioas  Xovors.  doccasccl,       8  IJ 

Elcazcr  lUackinan,                       2    10    Elx'iic/.cr  (Jardiicr.  8  3 

MUUnv  McMahoii.                        1     10    Zi-hiildii  How.  (J  3 

SU<i)licn  I'.iisscll.                          3      (I     William  Maxwell,  G  3 

ratrick  McMahaiiy.                     2      8    l^ohort  Foster,  2  8 

raticiice  Hill.                                1      4    rarl«'r  Clark,  3  7 

Daniel  Mann,                                2      2    At  wood  Fales,  3  ^ 

Sanriel  Grant,                             1      4    Elijali  Eayres,  3  1 

Stephen  (iraiit,                             2      0    Kev.  Setti  Xoble,  2  ."> 

Alex  (irant,                                   1       7     Samuel  iiodft'ers,  2  5 

Jaeol)  Oliver,                                2      4    Xatli.  IJeynolds,  2  5 

Da'iiel  Speneer,  Jr..                     2      2    Tlios.  Faulkner.  1  11 

Xatli.  Spencer.                             3      3    John  Day.  1  11 

IMiillii)  Si)encer,                           2      2     Anthony  linrk.  1  0 

N.ith.  Spencer.  .Jr.,                      1      8    (  arpcniter  Bradford,  1  0 

Isaac  Pajre,                                    1       7    John  Aekley.  1  (> 

William  i.ancaster,                      0      9    Jona.  Eddy,  Jr.,  1  0 

John  Itowell,                                0      G    William  How.  1  0 

Nath.  MeMahon.                         0      G    John  Partridj?o.  1  H 

Ihrook  Eddy,                                2      G  

Elias  Eddy.                                   2      G  £G    .")  11 
Col.  Jona.  Eddy,                       18      4 
William  Eddy,                            3      ') 

10,(iin  acres  wild  land,  a  3 £1592  5 

141  acres  cleared  land,  a  (5 42  (> 

23  Oxen,  £*)  per  yoke 103  10 

4  Hogs,  18 3  12 

19  Cows,  £3  each 57  0 

4 


50 

<l  y()un«r  ciitUc ^^ 

L'O  Dwfllinjr  ll()us('^^  or  l>"»its ' 

;{  liiiins,  t.iU 

1  Horse,        b _ 

Twciilv-six  poles  in  tlu;  Plantiition. 

(',,1.  Jonathan  Low.Vr  nuule  out  the  Tax  IV.lls  for  17!)1  and 
17112,  for  whieh  he  eliarged  tUc  IMantatiou  1  pouiul  10  slulhngH. 


B. 

Resoi.vk,  June  'iihii, 

Laiul  granted  to 

.lonathan  Kddy, 
K!)ene/cr  Ciardincr, 
Zeltulon  Uow, 
William  Maxwell, 
IJohevt  Fosti'i-, 
Parker  Clarkt', 
Atwood  Fak'H, 
Klijali  Ayer, 
AViUiaui  Ivldy, 
Phineas  Never, 
XaUianiel  Reynold, 

Seth  Nol)U', 

Samuel  Uogers, 

Thomas  Forkner, 

,)()hn  Day, 

Anthony  lUirk, 

liiadt'ord  Carpenter, 

John  Eekley, 

Jonathan  Kddy,  Jr., 

AVilliam  Howe, 


1775. 

1,500  aeres. 
1 ,000 


750 

750 

550 

500 

450 
400 
350 
1,(HH) 
;M)0 
3U0 
300 

2ao 

230 

150 
150 
150 
150 
1 50 

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[('(.py  ]  "Xi'w  York,  21  April,  ITS.'.. 

Sir:  The  enclosed  is  ii  resoliif ioii  of  ('oii<rress.  I  wish  it 
li:iil  Iteeii  more  ill  your  favor,  Ixit  it  is  all  that  ran  he  done  lor 
you  here  at  present.  The  Secretary  of  ( 'on<j:ress  has  t'or- 
\var(h'(l  lo  the  (iovernor  of  Massaehnselts  an  ofiieial  copy  of 
said  resohitioit,  yet  I  thoii^^hl  it  advisable  to  ^nve  you  this 
notice  ;  no  douht  you  will  observe  it  is  not  attested  l>y  th(3 
Seei'etary,  (he  hein^j; '••one  to  I'hiladelphiii )  I  th(»u<:iif  it  not 
material,  as  you  may  no  (loiihl,  if  necessary,  have  a  co[)y  at- 
tested hy  the  Secrt'tary  of  Massachusetts.  I  wish  you  to 
believe  that  1  have  not  been  iiiattiMitivc  to  your  atl'airs,  not- 
w'ithstandinii'  the  resolution  niav  not  fiillv  come  up  to  your 
exi)i'ctations. 

I  am  with  real  resix'ct,  your  most  obedi(Mit, 

S.    IIol/IKN." 

This  is  endorsed,  Dr.  llolten's  letter. 


c. 

"Penobscot  IJivor,  Aupr.  21st,  17!)0. 
(Jentlenien  :  Sundry  Mltem[)ts  have  l»een  made  for  a  settle- 
ment between  the  People  and  myself;  l)iit  all  to  no  etlect. 
\\'lu'n  I  settled  here,  I  consented  to  accept  of  20  [)ounds  less 
than  what  was  really  necessary  to  suiJiJoi't  my  family,  becauso 
the  Peo|)le  said  they  were  jjoor :  still,  to  release  them  of  the 
burden,  I  have  been  at  the  ex[)ense  to  collect  great  part  of 
Avhat  lias  been  collei'ted.  Very  little  thanks  have  I  had  for 
the  troul)le  1  have  been  at.  I  was  desired  to  draw  a  liond 
for  the  People  to  sign  for  my  sujtport,  which  was  rejected 
and  another  drawn  (unbeknown  to  me)  which  hath  deprived 
me  of  (Mie  half  of  the  sum  proposed.  I  am  willing  to  do  in 
this  and  all  cases  as  1  would  be  done  by;  but  necessity  c(^n- 
strains  me  to  say,  I  ninsf  have  my  pay.  I  must  further  ted  I 
you  I  shall  look  to  no  other  pers(ms  for  a  settlement  l)ut  that 
Connnittee  whicl'  covenanted  with  me  on  dune  7,  17S(!.  to  give 
me  seventy  pounds  annual  salary  ;  what  you  thea  did  is  as 
binding  as  a  not(>  of  I'.:!'.'.',!.     1   am   sorry  to  take  any  c<.>ercive 


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measures ;  l)ut  I  toll  you  airniu  I  must  have  my  pay  imme- 
diately.    I  am  (ieutlemau  witli  due  respect 
To  the  Committee.         Your  most  oh(>dient 

huml)le  servaut 
Superscribed.  ^,™i  Noble. 

To   C..1.   Jouathau  Kddy,   Maj.    IJol.ert  Treat,   Capt.    .John 
Crosl)y,  ^Ir.  Elislia  Nevers  ;  aud  the  rest  of  the  Couuuittec 
chosen  'to  make  proposals  to  settle  the  Gospel  on  Penob- 
scot Iviver  June  7,  178(k" 

Eev.  Seth  No])le,  the  first  minister  settled  on  Tenobscot 
river,  at  what  is  uoav  T.ang-or,  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and 
Sarah   (Hoot)   Noble   of  Westtield,  Mass.;   born  April   15, 
174H.     He  married  1st,  Hannah  liarker  at  ISIangervilie,  N. 
B     Nov   30,  1775  ;   she  died  at  Bano-or  June  IG,  1790.     2d 
v^'k',  Mrs.  IJuhama  Emery,  April  11,  1703.     He  says  in  his 
Diary  :     "  April  10,  Avent  with  r^Irs.  Emery  to  Capt.  Baker's^, 
and  \pril  lltli,  was  married  to  the  widow  liuhama  Emery." 
She  died  at  Montg.miery,  :Mass.,  1.S05.     3d  wife,  ^Slrs.  I^Iary 
Kiddle,  June,  1807.     His  children  were  : 

i       s.'th.  h.  Au-ust  5.  1777.     Lo^t  nt  sou  Oct.  20.  1798-21. 

ii      .,„s.,.h.  .ImM.  Hi.  17s:{:  ,m.  Mary  Ark.r...u  .lun.  9.  1S12;  du-d  m 

ISrio-luoii,  N.  B..  ISOy-iO.  8(i. 
iii    Kiual.,   .Im.e   1.    17S5;   ,n.    Martin   BavtholouHnv   ot    Montgomery, 
Mas'*    Nov.  1.  ISltl ;  difd  tli.'n>      )v.  1.").  ISIJd— ;>!. 
l^.njami,..  .1......  2.-..   17S7;  M.arri.'.l;  aud  died  it.  Brighton  (X.  B.) 

April  12.  18(50—73.  ...       ^,  . 

nai.iiah.  S.M.t.  11.  1789;  twi-n-  marri.Ml;  and  died  in  Aimty,  Oluo, 

Nov.  11.  1854—05.  ,  ,.    ,  . 

Betsey.  Nov.  2:{.  179;];  ni.  James  I'liillips  .luiie.  l:^(i  >;  and  died  in 

Clear  ("reek.  111..  Sept.  2.  1850— 50. 
vii    Thomas.  July  28,  1795;  died. I.ily:n.  1795. 
viii  l-oUy.  Sept.  20.   179(;;  ni.   Kiisl.a   Atki.is,   Xov.  25,  1810;  died  at 

Pleasant  Valley,  J'orter  Co.,  Indiana. 

Mr.  Noble  was  not  a  coUefre  graduate,  but  was  a  good 
Latin  scholar.  He  was  supposed  to  have  first  settled  over 
the  C^)ngre-afi<mal  Clnu-ch  in  IMangerviUe,  on  St.  Johns 
river,  nTb!,  June  15,  1774.  He  Avas  a  patriot  and  a  soldier 
as  well  .IS  a  minister;  uud  the  lie volutionury  war  breaking 


IV 


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53 


imme- 


>BLE. 

.  ,h)\m 
niuittoc 
rcuob- 

nol)scot 
nar<  and 
[)vil  15, 
,-illo,  X. 
yo.  2d 
^s  in  his 
P)ak('r's, 
Knicry." 
•s.  ]\Iary 


2;  dioil  in 
ntgonipry, 

on  (\.  r..) 

nity.  Ohio, 
ami  died  in 

[(i;  died  at 


H  a  good 
ttlod  over 
it.  John's 
[  a  soldier 
breaking 


out  he  fled  from  New  lirunswick.  ilo  was  at  IVruohias  during 
the  attack  ofi  that  place  by  the  British  fleet  in  August,  1777, 
and  the  Sabbath  after  "  preached  a  sermon  on  the  late  event." 
In  1779,  lieAvas  appointcsd  to  a  mission  to  the  Plastern  Settle- 
ments,  and  Avrote  the  General  Court  a  letter  of  which  the 

following  is  a  copy  : 

"Woburn,  June  7,  1779. 

Honored  Gentlemen  :  I  received  an  order  for  a  mission  to 
the  eastern  settlements  yesterday  by  th(!  hands  of  Col.  Bald- 
win, but  find  its  contents  so  much  diflerent  from  what  I  ex- 
pected, nuist  decline  the  undertaking.  1  was  informed  the 
mission  was  to  be  on  the  river  Penobscot  only,  but  I  was  mis- 
informed. There  are  sucli  a  variety  <  1"  Islands,  and  other 
inhabitants  contiguous  to  the  waters,  those  seas  are  so  much 
frequented  by  their  cruisers,  that  I  think  it  too  dangerous  an 
undertaking  for  a  proscribed  pciscm  to  accept  of.  I  suppose 
you  are  not  unac<iuainted  with  the  amazing  scarcity  of  the 
necessaries  of  life  in  those  parts;  add  to  this  tlu'  reward 
offered  me  when  '  !d  out  in  provision  or  clothing,  would  not 

purchase  more  than  dollars   would   in   177;").     From  a 

friend  to  those  Lil)erties  which  God  and  nature  liath  bestowed 
on  mankind.  Seth  Noble. 

To  the  whole  Court." 

Mr.  Noble  is  next  found  preaching  at  Augusta,  1785,  where 
he  preached  sixteen  Sabhatlis,  receiving  tlierefor,  £2t),  10s; 
dissatisfaction  grew  up,  or  rather  the  majority  preferred 
another  minister,  and  he  left,  lie  is  next  found  on  Penol)- 
si-ot  river,  June  7,  17.S(),  ci-.g-'giug  with  the  Conunittee  to 
preach  there,  his  irstallation  tak'ng  place  Sept.  lOth,  17S(5, 
at  Couduskeag  Plantatioi..  He  with  other  refugees  iwd  laud 
orj.nted  in  FAJdington.  His  Diary  says  he  removed  his  family 
t"o  New  :*larket,  N.  II.,  Nov.,  I  < 97  ;  May  ->1.  179,S,  he  hired 
to  preaeli  there  for  six  months.  Nov.  29,  1799,  left  New 
T^Iarke*  for  W-sttield  ;  he  supplied  vacant  churches  in  that 
vicinity  until  he  removed  to  the  adjoining  town  of  Montgom- 
ery, :^iass.,  where  he  was  installed  tirst  pastor  of  the  Congro- 


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gational  Church,  Nov.  4,  ISOl.  He  removed  to  Franldinton, 
Ohio,  in  the  Sprinjr  of  l.S()(5,  proachinsr  at  several  places  in 
the  vicinity.     He  died  Sept.  15,  1807,  aged  (54. 


D. 

"Hancock  ss.     To  Capt.  James  Budge  of  Bangor,  in  said 
County,  Gentleman— Greeting  :     Whereas,  an  act  passed  the 
General  Court,  in  the  State  of  Massachusetts,  February  the 
2r)th  Dav,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred 
and  ninety-one,  incorporated  into  a  toAvn  a  certain  tract  of  Land 
known  by  the  name  of  Condiskeag  plantation,  together  with 
the  inhabitants  therein,  l)y  the  name  of  Bangor ;  and  called 
on  me  to  issue  a  warrant  to  some  suitable  inhabitant  of  Ban- 
gor, to  warn  a  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  at  some  convenient 
time  and  place,  to  choose  such  officers  as  towns  are  l)y  law 
retpiired  to  choose  in  tlie  months  of  :SIarch  and  April,  annu- 
allv.     Therefore,  in  tlie  Name  of  the  Connnonwealth  you  are 
Required  to  warn  the  above  said  in]ial)itants  to  m(«et  at  some 
convenient  time  and  Place  for  tlie  aforesaid  purposes,  and  this 
shall  be  your  Sumcient  Warrant  for  so  Doing,     (iiven  under 
my  hand  and  seal  this  2.-)th   Day  of  February,  in  year  17;)2. 

,I()NA.   Kddv,  Justice  of  the  Peace." 

"Piangor,  March  the  lL>th,  17112. 

In  obedience  to  the  within  warrant  tome  Directed,  I  have 
warm'd  the  within  named  Inhabitants  to  meet  at  tlie  Dwelling 
house  of  3^rajor  Robert  Treat,  on  Thursday,  the  22d  day  of 
T^Iarch.  ''^^"-^  BiiKu:." 

Tins  is  the  original,  but  there  was  scmie  mistakes  in  Col. 
Eddy's  dates. 

E. 

"Philadelphia,  March  i;i,  1«00. 
Dear  Sir  :     I  have  not   nor   shall   1    forget  to  pay  all  (hw 
attentions  to  vour  business.     The  House  of  Uepresentatives 


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have  passed  a  new  Post  Office  Bill  in  Avhieli  provision  is  made 
to  extend  the  I'ost  road  from  Bucktown  to  Eddytown,  and  I 
shall  rcconnnend  you  for  post  master  at  that  place,  and  be- 
cause I  think  you  a  very  honest  man. 

I  am  pleased  to  hear  that  the  lion.  Caleb  Strong  is  talked 
of  for  Governor  of  our  State. 

I  am  dear  Sir  with  much  esteem  yours, 

Stlas  Lee. 

p.  S._I  hope  :\Ir.  Strong  will  be  voted  for  generally  Avith 
you,  and  he  will  be  suppcn-ted  throughout  the  whole  District. 
Jona.  Eddy,  Esquire,  Eddytown,  Maine." 


il2. 


F. 

"rhlladelphia.  May  9,  1800. 
j\Iy  Dear  Sir  :  I  have  the  pleasure  to  inform  you  that  the 
Connnissioners  have  reported  in  your  favor,  and  a  Bill  has 
been  before  us  and  is  passed  to  a  third  reading,  granting  you 
one  thousand  two  hundred  aud  eighty  acres  of  the  Western 
Lands.  The  value  of  this  land  I  can  not  now  tell  you,  some 
say  more,  some  less.  But  you  -aw  not  to  get  the  grants  till 
the  second  Tuesday  ot  .lanuary  next,  and  it  is  probable  1  may 
see  you  between  that  and  the  present  time. 

1  am  with  much  esteem  yours, 

Silas  Lee. 
Col.  Jona.  Eddy." 

"City  of  Washiugton,  Feb.  24,  ISOI. 
Dear  Sir  :     1  have  the    pleasure    of  informing  you  that  a 
Bill  has  passed  and  now  become  a  Law,  providing  for  you  and 
otlu'rs  ;  inclosed  you  have  a  copy  thereof. 

This  1V\\\  was  negotiated  in  ti.e  Senate  the  past  session,  and 
that  was  the  reason  why  the  business  was  not  brought  to  a 

close. 

Yours  Avith  nuu-h  esteem, 

Silas  Lel. 

Joua.  Eddy,  Es(p,  Eddytown,  Maine." 


a. 

Makriages  by  Col  Jon  a.  Eddy. 

The  dates  mid  names  I  have  copied  from  Col.  Eddy's  own 
list ;  the  places  of  residence  from  the  Clerk's  certificates.  The 
town  clerks  of  Bangor,  for  several  years  after  its  incorpora- 
tion, persisted  in  calling  it  Condeeskeag  Plantation. 

1791,  April  21,  John  Rowell  to  Molly  Ilarthorn,  both  of 

Penobscot  Hiver. 

1791    Stipt.  8,  John  :Manscl  to  Jenny  :Mahancy. 

1791,  Angnst,   Jacob  C^ook   to   Molly  Ilathorn,  both  of 

Orrington. 

1792,  April  30,  Levi  Lancaster  to  Rebecca  Mann,  both  ot 

Eddington  PI. 

17'JH,  Dec.  25,  AVm.  Tibbetts  of  Kenduskeag  PI.  to  Mrs. 

Sarah  Thombs  of  Orrington. 

1793,  Dec.  27,  Joseph  Clark  Jr.  to  Mrs.  Jane  Potter,  both 
of  Condeekeag  PI. 

1793,  Dec.  27,  Arad  Mayhew  to  Elizabeth  Clark,  both  of 

Condeskeag  PI. 

1794,  Aug.  31,  Robert  Ilichborn  Jr.  of  Bangor  to  Miss 

Jean  Thorns  of  Orrington. 

1794,  Sept.   4,   Enoch   Eayres   to   widow  Lydia  Lovitt, 
both  of  Cobenton  PL 

1795,  July  10,  Ben  Spencer  to  Hannah  Stanley,  both  of 

Eddington  PI. 

1795,  August  19,  Robert  Campbell  to  Betsey  Knapp,  both 

of  Orrington. 

179(5,  Jan.  20,  Edward  Garland  to  Abigail  Freese,  both  of 

Cobentown  PI. 

179(5,  Jan.    28,  James  Campbell  of  Orrington  to  Peggy 

Boyd  of  BauLTor. 

179(5,  Oct.   11,  Wm.  Spencer  to  Iluldah  Page,   both  of 

Cobentown  PI. 

179(5,  Oct.  IS,  Joseph  Potter  to  Rhoda  ^Nlan. 

179(5,   Nov.    2,    Stephen  Page   to  Anna   Eayres,   both  of 

rV.1w>iif(i\vn    1*1. 


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1797,  Francis  Robisko  to  Phebe  Eayrcs,  both  of  Coben- 

town  PI. 

170S,  June  11,  Jos('])h  Inman  Jr.  to  Lettice  Holmes,  both 

of  Cobentown  PI. 

17!)8,  Augii«t  2,  Theodore  Traftou  to  Margaret  Denaet, 
both  of  Bangor. 

1798,  Oct.  27,  Jonathan  Snow  to  Mary  Tebbetts,  both  of 

Kenduf>kcag  PI. 

1798,  Aug.  IG,  Ednunid  Hartford  to  Hannah  Oliver,  both 
of  Kddington  PI. 

1798,  Oct.  31,  AVm.  Reed  of  Cobenton  PI.  to  Jenny  Orcutt 
of  Orrington. 

1798,  David  Howell  to  Nancy  Grant. 

1799,  John  Brooks  of  Cobenton  PI.  to  Hannah  Buzzell  of 
Sunkhaze. 

17!»9,  AVni.  Cook  of  Orrington  to  Nancy  Cogswell  of 
Eddington  PI. 

1799,  July  G,  Gates  Harthon  to  Hannah  ]Mann,  both  of 

SunkLaze. 

1799,  Richard  Lancaster  to  Thankful  Clark  of  Bangor— 

Pub.  Oct.  5. 

1799,  John  Brown  Jr.  of  Belfast  to  widow  Sarah  Nesmith 

of  Baugor. 

1800,  March  20,  Nath.  :\IcMahan  to  widow  Nancy  Clapp, 
both  of  Eddington  PI. 

1800,  Oct.  27,  :Moses  Spencer  of  Plantation  No.  4  to  Sarah 
Grant  of  Eddington  PI. 

1800,  Dec.  25,  Gideon  Horton  to  ^Miss  Temperance  Ken- 
ncy,  both  of  Orrington. 

1800,  Dec.  2(5,  Joseph  Eddy  to  Elizabeth  Rowe,  both  of 
Eddingt(m  PI. 

1800,  John  ^linot  of  Canaan  to  Elizabeth  Palmer  of  P>angor. 

1800,  David  Burton  to  Elizabetli  .McMalum,  both  of  Ed- 
dington PI. 

1800,  Dec,   Wm.   Cortigan  to  Rebecca  Eayres,  both  of 

Sunkhaze. 

1801,  Gideon  Knap  to  Sarah  Mann,  I'oth  of  Orrington. 


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1801,  Isaac  Frecsc  Jr.  of  Stillwater  to  Rebecca  Ilarthorn 

of  Baiiiror. 

180n    Dec.  U,  Elisha  How  to  Leonali  ^lann. 

I8O2',  Xov.  20,  Saiuuel  Bailey  .Ir.  tc  Katy  Diullcy,  both 
of  Sunldiazc  PI. 

[J.n.u.iah  Colbuu.  wa.  -Chivk-'  of  OlLinntowu  Plantation,  but  he 
invariahlv  snclltMl  it  ColxMitown. 

T  .0  pnnt  d  an-oun,  ..f  ,lu-  Orono  Coutonnial  O.1..1.vat,on  oi  Ma, H.  .  .1. 
I874! OmU.  th.  tlH.t  that  ..n.uo  .as  ,h.t  organized  as  Colbornlon  IManta- 
tion  and  so  continncd  for  some  years.] 


H. 

Joseph  Jimx,  oxe  of  the  Eakly  Meuciiants  ox  Picxob- 

SCOT    RlVEU. 

In  Kiader's  Ilistorv  of  the  Kevolutionaiy  War  in  Eastern 
Maine  and  Nova  Sctia,  pa;.e  2^0,  is  a  letter  froniC.d.  .b.hn 
Allan,  Superintendent  of  the  Eastern  Indians,  to  the  (  onne.l 
of  Mass.,  dated  Ma.-hias,  Sept.  22,  1777,  which  says: 
I  lind  there  is  a  French  merchant   (Mons.  Lunier)  settled  at 
the  head   of  Penobscot   with  a  liritish   Connnission   to  treat 
with  the  Indians  he  uses  every  Art  and  means  to  tnrn  tlien> 
they  have  had  nianv  Supplys  from  hi.n  and  I  fear  they  have 
crivon  (him)  much  Intelligence  fnmi  time  to  tunc.'     In  an- 
other letter  dated  Machias,  Sept.  2;-),  1777,  (Kidder,  pag(,>  ^  ) 

Col.   Allan   savs :     "     *     *     *     ^"'•i*''-  ^^'^  '''^'''''  ^''''''  ^^'^ 
Johns   I  have' had    several    conferences  with  the  Penobscot 
Indians,  one  in  particular,  when  we  Exchanjred  s.vcial  strings 
of  wampum,  when  I  perceived  from  what  they  said  and  othc«r 
anthenti<-  accounts,  that  some  of  the  most  Diabolical  procrrd- 
ino-s  have.  b(H-n  carried  on  on  that   Kiver.     (ireat  F.nd.e/./le- 
ments  of  l'ul>lick  Money  as  well  as  imposing  on  the  Indians, 
which  with  the  close   attention   of  Mons.   Lunier,  the  Uritish 
A.rcnt  on  the  head  of  th..  river  gave  to  his  business,  I  saw  the 
Body  must  soon  be  driven  olf."     Col.  Allan  says  under  (late 
of  :SIaehias,  Oet.    20.  17711.  (Kidder,  page      )  :        Mr,  1   b'ld 
the  Honor  of  writing  you  the  28th  uist.,  by  Cai.t.  Dc  luulio 


59 


thorn 


,  1)()th 

but    lio 

I'liUltU- 


Pexob- 

ivistorn 
1.  ,)()hu 

1  "oiiiicil 

,  '•  *   * 

ttlotl  at 
to  trt'tit 
vn  them 
ey  hiivo 
111  aii- 
p:ili'c      ) 
roiii   St. 
.'iiobscot 
,1  slriiiil's 
11(1  other 
j)r()('i'('(l- 
iul)i'//l«-'- 
ludians, 
c  Uritish 
I  saw  the 
i(U'r  «hite 
ir,  1  hud 
De  Badie 


who  went  in  Company  witli  Col.  (Joiuitlian)  Lowder  of 
Peno1)seot,  by  the  Lakes,  IHO  mih's  1)!i('k  with  four  Indians  in 
two  IVirch  Canoes.  Ihit  very  Unfortunately  the  whoh-  Fell 
into  the  hands  of  the  Enemy.  About  the  12th  Instant  on  the 
River  Penobscot  some  Canadians,  Indians  and  French  to  the 
number  of  twenty-six  nnder  the  direction  of  Capt.  Lunier 
who  lives  on  the  Carryinir  place  between  IVnobscot  and  St. 
Lawrence.  *  *  *  This  Capt.  Lnnier  the  Hon.  T.oard  may 
remember  that  1  mentioned  his  name  several  times  since  my 
Bein<j^  here,  he  is  an  a(tive,  Vigilent  fellow  and  great  Intln- 
cnce  among  the  Indians.  I  was  very  anxious  to  have  him 
Dislodged  on  my  tirst  coming  here  which  (conld)  have  easily 
been  done  then.  But  he  has  now  a  number  of  Regular  Troops 
and  Canadians  with  him.  I  dread  him  most  at  present  and  by 
his  late  snccess  no  doiil)t  he  will  Endeavor  to  harass  these 
Settlements." 

There  can  1)e  no  doul)t  bnt  that  the  Capt.  Lnnier  referred 
to  was  the  same  man  who.  as  Joseph  .luiiin,  Avas  murdered  in 
his   store   in   Condeskeag  Plantation,  lu'l).    IS,  17!H.     Jona. 
Eddv,  Justice  of  the   Feace,  issued  his  warrant  to  Abraham 
Tourtellot,  Constable,  Fel).    19,  ITIH,  to  "summon  and  warn 
thirteen  men,  good  and  lawful  men,   *   *  *  to  view  the  body 
of  Josepli  Junin,  then  lying  dead  at  the  house  of  Jacob  Den- 
net,  c^cc."'     The  Jury   were:    Capt.   Thomas   Campbell,  :\Iaj. 
Robert  Treat,  Capt.  James  Ihidge,  William  Plymi)toi).  Rol)crt 
Hichborn,  Andrew  ^N'ehster,  Capt.  John  Rider,  John  Smart, 
^Villiam  llascy,  Elijah  Smith,  Nathaniel  Harlow  and  Abraham 
Allen,  and  were  i)aid    six    shillings  each.     The  Jury  found 
probable  cause  "that   one   Louis  Paronneau,  a  nephew  to  the 
deceased,  is  the   Person    that   hath  committed  this  murder." 
Whereu[)on   Jonathan  Eddy  and  Simeon  Fowler,  Es(juires, 
issued  their  warrant  Oct.    -i.".,  for  the  arrest  of  Faroimeau. 
He   was  arrested    by  Joshua  ^Voodnlan,   Deputy  Sheritf.     I 
give  a  coi)y  of  a  letter  now  l)ef()i'e  me  : 

"His  ENcellency  the  Covernor  th<'  Hon.  Council  otthc 
Conmionwealth  of"  Massa<liusetts.  May  i<  -'lease  your  Excel- 
lency and  Honours,  Inclosed  is  an   liupiisition  taken  at  Con- 


GO 

dcskoacr  Plantation,  In  the  County  of  Hancock,  on  the  10th 
av  of  Fc  )     In  thJ  year  of  our  LORD,  one  thousand  seven 
h^..hU  ;.I;;i  ::hu.yine,  on  the  Body  of  u  French  (  enUen.an 
kno^vn  hv  the  uanu.  of  Joseph  ;Iu.nn,  who  was  f-^'       "    '^^ 
nnnlv  murdered  in  his  Bed  in  his  store,  m  ni-ht  o    the  e.-h- 

Zl  of  Fehruary,  by  son.  R.s<,n  -/'----/t;::;;^^^ 
the  Discharue  of  a  Gnu  which  forced  two  Balls  thiou-U   is 
llniins  as  lic^lay  sleeping  on  his  Becl ;  and  /I--^^-  >;;  ;^« 
Cause  hythe  Oaths  of  the  Jury  of  liKpiest  that  on     Louis 
p'  r  .nneau,  a  n.M,hew  of  the  Deceased,  is  the  Person  that  hath 
V>;"  X  ec  this  murder,  Ilave  Issued  a  Warrant  and  appre- 
cX    the  said  Louis,  And  had  him  under  examination   and 
Vv       Ml    him  hv  Mittimus  to  Ciaol,  and  as  the  property-  ot 
^cuol'crsons  might   not  be  lost  I  ^^^ }^^^ ^l'}^^ 
nssistanee  of  six  men  Under  Oath,  (vi/.)  Maj.  Kobert  lieat, 
M  ■   1    bert  Iliehborn,  Mr.  William  Plympton,  Capt.  dames 
Budo-e   Mr.  Jacob  Dennet  and  John  Smart  (   u  account)  of 
.1   th  ir  Kt  ects  which  could  be  found  here  at  h.s  store  tha 
ihoCons      of  Fram-eor  who  ever  may  luwe  aUighitosaid 
tilings     1  ay  be   aciuainted   therewith    and   as    here  is  more 
^:  h^ed  in  ot\icr  Places  on  thu,  lliv.r  wh-^^n;.^ taken 
account  of  yet  but  sliall  as  soon  as  Possible.        heietoie  some 
fur  her  directions  from  your  Excellency  and  Honours  will  be 
mol!;  grat^^iuUy  aekiunvidged   and  am   -^^h   snu-erdy  your 
most  d.(>dient  Humble  Servant,  ^^        Jon  a.  Ldi>.  . 

Condeskeag  Plantation,  2'6  leb.  1<UL 

Paronneau   asserted   that   his   Uncle    was   killed  by  three 
Indians,  and  John  Emery,  Jr.,  Elisha  Mayhew,  John  l)<.nm^. 
John  Emery,  Jacol)  Dennet,  and  others  were  emph)yed    o 
search  the  woods  for  the  Indians,  but  none  were  tound.     In 
the  speech  of  Rev.  Mark  Trafton,  at  the  Bangor  Centeiimal 
Celebration,  1H70,  see  printed  Report,  page  91,  says  :       Ihe 
first  murder  committed  in  this  town  was  of  an  old  I  renchman 
by  the  name  of  Junion,  who  was  a  trader  from  Castine  and 
had  a  h>g  house  and  store  where  the  steam  mill  now  stands, 
near  the  depot.     A  iu>phew  of  his  came  into  my  grandtather  s 
(Jacol,  Dennet)   one   evening,  wild  and  excited,  saying  the 
Indians  were  around,  and  he  feared  they  would  kill  his  uncle. 
He  soon  left,  and  the  report  of  a  gun  was  heard,  and  on  going 
to  the  store  the  old  man  was  Ibund  dead,  but  no  doubt  existed 
that  the  nephew  was  the  murderer  ;  he  was  sent  to  France  for 
trial." 


01 

This  must  be  an  error.     At  this  time  Hancock  County  was 
a  now  County,  probably  without  a  Jail,  so  that  the  prisoner 
was  sent  to   Pownalboro   .Jail.     I    find  in  Maine;  Historical 
Society's    Collections,    Vol.    (5,    pp.   49,  50,  the    following: 
"Lewis  Paronneau  was  indicted  on  a  charge  of  nnirder  of  his 
Uncle,  on  the  Penobscot  Kiver,  what  is  now  liangor.     The 
motive  assigned  was  to  gain  possession  of  the  money  of  his 
uncle.     lie  was  tried  at  Pownalboro,  in  Lincoln  County.     His 
counsel  were  John  CJardiner,  a  distinguished  lawyer  on  the 
Kenne1)ec,  and  Gen.  William  Lithgow,  Jr.     The  defence  was 
managed  Avith  nnich  skill  by  hk  counsel.     The  French  Consul, 
then  resident  at  Boston,  cam(>  doAvn  to  attend  the  trial  and 
exerted  all  the  influence  he  could  conunand  m  favor  of  his 
countryman.      The   Jury   returned   a  verdict   of    acquittal, 
although  there  was  strong  circumstantial  evidence  of  his  guilt. 
The  trial  was  in  the  old   Court  House,  on  the  banks  of  the 
Kennebec  Kiver,  in  what  is  now  Dresden." 

I  have  a  "true  copy  of  the  Inventory  of  his  goods,  Feb. 
23,  171)1,  Attest:  Robert  Hichborn,  Jr.,"  with  a  receipt  at- 
tached, given  to  Jona.  Eddy,  Esquire,  by  Thomas  Phillips, 
as  Attorney  of  "Monsieur  De'Latombe,  Consul  General  of 
France."  The  goods  consisied  of  a  complete  stock  of  just 
such  goods  as  an  Indian  trader  of  that  day  Avould  Avant,  Avith 
not  many  changes  to  suit  noAvadays :  Green  and  red  baize, 
Avide  ribbons  of  all  colors,  yellow  hat  bands,  27  plumes,  black 
feathers,  blue  broadcloth,  blankets,  Indian  guns  with  large 
qnantities  of  amnmnition,  furs  of  all  kinds,  and  rum  sand- 
wiched in  betAveen  everything  else. 

The  Jury  of  Incpiest,  the  men  Avho  Avcnt  into  the  woods  to 
search  for  the  Indians,  officers'  fees  for  taking  care  of  prisoner, 
Jacob  Dcnnet  for  his  trouble,  and  "Owen  Madden  for  three 
days'  writing,  18  shillings,"  were  all  paid  out  of  the  estate  of 
the  murdered  man.  Feb.  10,  171)1,  "John  Ilolyoke,  Bryant 
Bradley,  Solomon  Ilathorn,  John  Thorns,  and  John  Emery 
certify  that  they  have  'Decently  laid  out  the  l)ody  of  Joseph 
Junin  for   Interment.' "     Junin   was   an   Indian  trader  and 


62 


willu.ut  doubt  the  snino  man  who  aotod  an  IVitis 
Pcuobscot  Kivi«r  durin-  Iho  llevolutioimi y  War 


h  Af?ont  on 


I. 

Eantport,  Passanuuiuoddy,  April  .'iO,  1802. 
Dcir  Sir-  I  just  saw  Niclc  SimnionH  from  Cumbcrlaud, 
holntornu'd  me  that  about  u  tort ui.L'ht  since  h.  was  in  (•om- 
imny  with  your  son  Jonathan,  who  was  then  in  dood  Health  ; 
this  is  what  I  anti.-ipated  in  my  last,  and  I  aeeordiuj;ly  Con- 
gratulate you  on  the  Cireumstance.     Excuse  nmch  Imste. 

I  am  your  Obct  Serv 

Liiwis  Dklesdeunieu. 


J. 

COLONKL   AND    Du.    PlUNKAS   NcVEltS, 

The  first  physician  of  P.ano-or,  was  a  resident  of  ^lanjierville, 
Sunbury  County,  now  New  lirunswick,  on  tlie  St.  Jolm  river. 
He  WIS  one  of  a  Connnittee  chosen  by  the  inhabitants  to 
make  Immediate  application  to  the  CV.n^nvss  or  (Jeneral 
Assembly  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  for  reru.f  under  their 
present  Distressed  Circumstances."  (See  Kidder's  History 
of  Revolutionary  War  in  Eastern  Maine  and  Nova  Scot.a, 

^'^Aid  wL  granted  to  the  Patriots  on  the  St.  John's  River  by 
the   (leneral  Court,  June   2(1,   1770.     At  this  time  he  was 
,.,ll,.d   Dr.  Nev(«rs,  and  was  at  various  places  between  :SIan. 
<r,vvil!e  an.l  Machias  from  May  21,  1777,  to  June  18,  17^7, 
when  Col.  John  Allan,  Superintendent   of  the   Eastern  In- 
dians, in  a  letter  <.f  that  date  to  the  Council  ..f  Massachusetts 
Pav,(Kidder,   page   11.:^,)   says:      "*     *     *     The  bearer 
Doct    N.-vers,  who  is  a  Person  who  has  SulTered  the  gr.^atest 
hardships,  the  most  part  of  his  Interest  carried  oil   by  Mr. 
Gould  and  himself  Eyabl(>  every  day  to  be  made  a  1  r,s^>ner, 


his  Character  in  Private  E 
try,  Peing  a  Great 


Life  as  Avell  as  his  zeal  f(n-  his  Coun- 


Instrumeut  in  Keeping  the  Indians  Quiet 


03 


ant  on 


m-2. 

i'rliuul, 
11  com- 
Iciilth  ; 
y  Cou- 
ito. 

SIEU. 


lerville, 
m  river, 
lilts  "to 
(Jcnoi-iil 
cr  their 
History 
L  Scotia, 

Iviver  l)y 
>   lie   was 
?en  Miin- 
IS,  1777, 
stern   lu- 
aehu  setts 
0   bearer, 
[!  <vr(>atest 
ir  by  ^Ir. 
Prisoner, 
his  Coiin- 
ians  Quiet 


in  Furnishing  them  with  I'rovisions,  &v.,  merits  tiie  friend- 
ship of  every  person  eoneernod,  must  therefore  reto.iiniend 
him  to  your  Honours  favors." 

At  tiie  attack  of  the  British  fleet  upon   Maehias,  August, 

1777,  he  Avas  present  and  aeting  as  Lieut.  Coh)nel  in  Col. 

Jonathan   Eddy's  TJegiment.     1  eopy  a  letter  which   I  found 

in  Massachusetts  Archives : 

"  Boston,  Sept.  18,  1777. 

TTon.    Gentlemen:     I   take   this    Earliest   opi)ortiinity   to 
lielurn  you  my  hearty  thanks  for  the  Honor  you  did  mo  in 
npiiointing  me  Lieut.   Col.  of  the   Battalion  intended  to  bo 
raised  under  the  command  of  Col.  Eddy,  and  more  especially 
for  your  late  appointment  as  T  '"ut.  Col.  over  the  Troops 
ordered  to  be  raised  for  the  defence  of  Machias.     1   hoiie   I 
shall  be  ab.o  to  conduct  my  self  in  such  a  manner  as  will  give 
satisfaction  to  your  ILmonrs  and  the  Bulilick.    Being  obliged 
by  the  tools  of  Tyranny  either  to  acknowledge  (ieorge  the 
third  of  (irate  B>riton  iin   b'ightfiil  Lord  and  Sovereign  and 
bear  arms  against  my  brethren  of  the  United   States  when 
they  pleased,  or  leave  my  family  and  interest  at  their  tender 
mercies,  (which  is  cruelty)  I  chose  the  latter,  and  have  been 
s(!veral  moiiHis  spending  the  little  cash  I  brought  of  with  me. 
I   am   now  rather  short  of  that  article,  and  am  to  beg  that 
your  Honours  would  be  pleased  to  lend  me  such  small  sum 
as   may    be  necessary    in  ace()nii)lisirm!Jf   the    business   your 
honours  have  been  or  may  be  phrased  to  appoint  me  to  do, 
and  you  will  again  much  oblige 

Your  Honours  most  Humble  Servant 

PiiiNEAS  Nkveus." 

To  the  Hon.  Council  and  the  House  of  rvcpresentatives  of  the 

State  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay. 

In  Col.  John  Allan's  letter,  Machias,  Oct.  12,  1777,  (Kid- 
der, page  2;?.S,)  he  says  :  "*  *  *  Lieut.  Col.  Nevers 
has  not  yet  arrived,  nor  have  I  received  any  Intelligence  from 
him.  I  doubt  whether  he  will  raise  his  men  before  the  time 
is  out." 


64 

T  hiivi'  no  fiuHuM-  account  of  his  military  sorvicos.     Some- 
time after  this  he  removed  his  family  to  P  Miol.scot  river,  to 
what   is  noNv  naniror,  where   he   practised  his  professi.m.     I 
have  an  ohl  writ  wherein  John  Xevers,  for  estate  (,f  Vhineas 
Nevcrs,  sued  Tiiomas  Low  of  Ranj^or,  for  medical  servieeH 
rendered  in  17^5.     As  one  of  the  Uefuj,'ees  from  Nova  Scotia 
durinj;  the  Kevolntionary  Wnr,  he  was  a  <jrantee  of  lands  in 
what  Is  now  Kddin-ton.     1   tind  those  hinds  taxed  in  Kddy- 
town  riantation  to  estate  of  riiineas  Xevers,  deceased,  from 
1791    to    KIT),     lie   lived  near  where   Cooml)s'  wharf  was. 
The  Kev.  Mr.  Nohle  held  his  first  meeting  in  17H(;  in  the  Dr. 
Ncvcrs' house,     lie  probably  died  in  October,  ns').     llev. 
Mr.  Noble,   iu  a  letter  to  his  wife  at  New  -Market,  N.  II., 
from  Kennebec  river,  dated  Feb.  (?,  l/SO,  informs  her  that 
"I  hear  and  believe  it  is  true,  Cd,  Ncvers  died  in  October 

last."     Mr.  Nol'l*^  '"  li'«  l^i'^'^'  'T"^>'  '^•^'  ^^^''  '''''''''''^''']  ^^'"^ 
fact,  "Komoved  my  family  to  tlie  widow  Nevers'  House." 


Maior  Ro1)ert»  Treat,  son  of  Joseph*  and  Mary  Treat  of 
Boston,  born  there  July  14,  17r)2.  His  lirst  wife  was  Mary 
Partrkbre.  to  whom  he  was  married  Nov.  2S,  1774;  she  was 
born  in" Haverhill,  :Mass.,  ^May  f.,  1757,  and  died  in  Han-or 
June  10,  I.SOO.  He  married  second,  Mary,  dau-hter  of  Nath. 
Gale,  Feb.  2«,  1804.    His  children,  all  born  in  Bangor,  were  : 

i       .losopli.  1).  Doc.  18.  177');  aninaniud.     Died  IS.").'}. 

ii      .lohn.  Fcl).  1.  1777.     Died  1777. 

iii    i;.,l,pil.  An^^  1.  1779.    Drowned  on  l,is  way  to  Boston  m  a  vcsool 
Oclober  1!).  17!)S. 
Join.   IMitrid-e.  .Tnly  21.  1783;  m.  Itosiuina  Dnsglns  1813.    Lived 

and  died  in  Enfield  18r)7. 
V      Pollv,  Get.  1.  1785.     Died  1702. 

vi     Joshua.  August  0,  1787 ;  uinnairied.    Died  Sept.  1,  1821. 
vii   Betsey.  .Tune  24,  1701.     Died  same  y<'ar. 
Viii  Samni'l.  .Tunc  28.  1705.     Died  same  year, 
ix     Ko1)ert  Henry.  May  IS.  1708 ;  unmarried. 
X     Xatii.  Ciale.  Mareh  Ki.  1807. 
xl     Mary  II..  April  2.3. 1809. 
xii    Elizabeth  llolyoke,  .January  19.  1802. 


iv 


Died  Enlield  1843. 


JoHcpli  Treat*  wiiH  son  of  Rev.  Siiimicl'  1  'viit  of  Kiislliam, 
on  Capo  Cod,  who  wuh  son  of  (i.-vcinoi-  Kohcit' Tiriit  of 
Connecticut,  who  was  Hon  of  Hichanl  'I'n^at  the  orifiliml 
settler   in    Massachusetts,    and   alterward  at   Wcatherstield, 

Conn. 

^lajor  Treat  came  to  nan<r..ral)ont    177;J;  lived  at.  Treat's 

Falls'in  a  hous*'  l.uilt  l.y  Jt'dediah   I'reMe.     Said  by  Home  to 

have  kept  lirst  store  in  l{an.ir()r,  hut  pr<.l)al>ly  was  the  second 

nu'rchant   in   Wnw^ov.     IJuilt  the  lirst  vessel  at  nan<;or,  just 

helow  the  ren.jejawock  stream,  which  was  then  the  court  end 

of  the  town,     lie  died  ^lay  27,  lH2t. 

L. 

Tmk  Famii.y  of  Amos  IUilkv  or  Mimoud. 
Amos  liailev,  iM.rnSept.  2(lth,  HSf),  Massachusetts;   mar- 
ried Sally   r.a'llard;  she  horn  Oct.  U,   178H,  at  Bucksport, 

Me.  (?)     Children: 

Amiii.  1).  Muy  17.  lSl():ui.  Alfn^d  O.  Im-.t^..!!.  Lincoln.  Me.    Tlioy  have 
til.'  iMiiilly  l>ll)i<';  iidilrcsH  him  for  fmlli.T  i.iirliciiliirH. 

I'oUy.  Sliircli  :il.  1S12.     Died  y-.mi^^  In  Miltonl. 

AnKKx,  .Iim.  :{l.  isl  I.     IJiiy  City.  Midi.,  at  pnwiit  tiiiu". 

.S'lUy   Nov   ■':!.  ISi:.,     Died  in  Miltonl  wlitMi  youn},'. 

J,..vn"n;.h  J.,  An-ust  -JK,  1S17.     Uiccl  in  lian-or.     Miirricd  an.l  family; 
4  children.  2  alive. 

Caroline.  .Inly  S>.  ISID;  m.  .lonall.an  Kddy.     Seven  ehildren. 

Mark  'I'rallon.  May  2.  1H21.     Detroit.  Mieh..  family  there. 

Kh.Mnor    I'.ird.   O.-t.  2S.    1S2:{;   m.  (Jeor-e   W.   II.    Urown  of  lanc.ln. 
Family  in  Mich.     Died. 

Jon'ma  P.a-s.  Oct.  It.  182.-).     Died  in  Milford  or  Snnklia/e. 

Mary  11..  March  :!!.  1S2S;  m.  .lo.,.;,!.  Ileald.     :{ .■hil.lren.  2  now  abve. 

Sarah  Ann.  Feb.  IS.  ISllO.     Died  in  I'urt  llnron.  Micli. 

Sanuiel,  April  2:5.  is:i2.     Died  in  Michigan. 

Adalino.  Jan.  ;{.  ls;U;  m.  A.  h.  Stehhins  of  IV.rt  Unn.n.  Mich.,  wheie 
they  now  live.    They  have  2  ehildren,  a  son  and  daughter. 

M. 

Col.  CJahriel  .Tohonnot  was  son  of  Zechary  and  Elizahetli 
(Quincv)  dohonnot  of  lioston,  where  he  was  horn  in  1748. 
II(-  married  tirst,  Martha,  dau-hter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Cooper 
of  Boston,  nilC,  and  second,   Sarah  Bradstrect,  1771.     lie 


06 

Imcl  one  ^on,  Siimucl  Cooper,  by  his  first  wife,  avIio  o^raauiitcd 
iit  Ilarvnrd  College  in  1783;  settled  in  Portland,  where  ho 
pnictised  li'.w,  and  died  in  Deniarani,  180(5. 

Col.  Johonnot  Avas  a  merchant  in  Ronton.     In  1773  he  was 
one  of  a  eonnnittee  to  wait  on  consignees  of  several  cargoes 
of  Tea,  shipped  to  Boston  by  the  East  India  Company,  and 
recpiest  oi'  them  m)t  to  land  or  pay  duties  on  the  Tea.     He 
was  I.ieut.  Colonel  14th  Kegimeut  of  :\[assachusetts,  in  Con- 
tiirntal  Army,  known  as  Col.  Clover's.     August  15,  1774,  ho 
was  chairman  of  a  Committee  appointed  by  the  Cadets  "to 
proceed  to  Salem  and  return  to  Govci-nor  (Jago  the  Standard 
he  had  present(!d  them."'     In  the  :\Iassaduisctts  Archives  is 
an  Order  of  Council  during   the    u,       utionary  war,  "tliat 
Col.  Johonnot  is  ordered  to  report  what  progress  he  made 
relating  to  exchange  of  prisoners  with  Lord  Howe." 

In  1784  he  \\as  liviiig-  in  the  town  of  IVnobscot,  (now 
Castine)  where  he  was  i)i()minent  in  townallairs,  and  Avas  the 
secoud  Kepresentative  of  the  town  to  the  (IcMieral  Court  of 
J^Iassacluisetts.  lie  was  a  prominent  Free  Mason  at  Penob- 
scot, having  been  one  of  the  charter  members  of  Hancock 
Lotl;>e  at  its  formation,  and  its  first  Senior  Warden.  (See 
Wheeler's  History  of  Castine,  page  225.) 

He  nnnoved  to  Hamixlen  befon;  1     •!»,  where  ho  Avas  Secre- 
tary of  Rising  \'irtue  Lodge  of  Masons  in  1802,  and  for  some 

years  after. 

In  171MI  he  had  a  controversy  Avith  Eliphalet   Perkins  of 
Orrington,  and  struck  him.     A  few  days  afttM-  Perkins  liad 
him  arrested  mimI  carried  before  Col.  Jona.  Eddy  on  a  chaigo^ 
of  assault,  c^^c,  Avhen  Col.  .lohonnot  produced  a  document,  of 
Avhich  I  give  a  copy,  and  which  stoi)ped  furtlu'r  proceedings: 
'"Hancock    ss :     Orrington,   August   5,    17!IJ».      IVrsonally 
appeared  (Jabriel  dohoimot,  Ls(|uire,  and  complained  of  him- 
self for  a  breach  of  the  i>eace  in  having  struck  Klii)halet  I'er- 
kins,  on  Thursday  evening,  the  tirst  day  of  August  instant, 
juid  paid  a  tine  of  twelve  shillings,  or  two  dollars,  as  a  satis- 
faction to  the  government   of  Massachusetts  for  said  breach 
of  the  peace.  Simeon   Fowlku,  .Justice  of  the  rcaco." 


67 


I  give  a  copy  of  a  letter  noAv  heforo  mo  : 

"ITainpden,  Deo.  2(1,  ITOH. 

Sir :  Yours  of  the  80th  ultimo  was  deliycrod  to  me  by 
Mr.  David  Ivead  ;  in  ausAvor  to  the  oonteiits  "would  observe, 
that  my  letter  to  Capt.  Read  was  founded  on  the  direct  and 
full  assertion  of  Joslnia  Kayres,  the  father,  and  corrolioratod 
by  his  son,  and  coloriiiir  of  sujiport  from  another  person. 
Mr.  Eayres  asserted  positively  that  when  he  settled  and  paid 
for  the  cattle  it  Avas  done  by  Mv.  Kead's  giving  the  fullest 
encouragement  that  the  Avarrant  Avould  be  (|uashed  and  all 
further  proceedings  therein  stopped,  assc  ing  that  he  Avas  the 
prosecutor,  but  should  not  nor  Avould  not  apjXNir  to  support 
the  comphiint ;  and  that  you  said  if  they  settled  it  and  paid 
for  the  hay  you  Avould  Avarrant  nothin-^-  more  Avould  be  done 
about  the  Avarrant.  If  this  had  been  a  true  state  of  the  case, 
I  conceiA'c  it  avouUI  liave  l)een  ext(n-ting  money  in  the  fullest 
degree  witli  agravated  circumstances — as  I  have  been  misin- 
formed nothing  further  need  be  added  on  that  head.  Eav'res 
pressed  to  knoAV  if  nothing  could  1)0  done  to  savo  his  children 
from  punishment.  I  told  him  no,  the  only  thing  to  be  done 
was  for  them  to  come  forward  and  give  s(M'urity  for  their  ap- 
pearance at  S.  J.  O  :  Avlien  thcio  lln-ow  thomselA'cs  on  the 
mercy  of  the  Court,  and  (as  you  observe)  the  having  made 
satisfaction  for  the  injury,  would  no  doubt  go  in  mitigation  of 
the  punishment.  There  requires  exaui[)les  of  rigor,  that  the 
people  in  that  quarter  may  see  tliat  tlie  laws  nuist  be  observed, 
and  that  if  they  Avill  not  quietly  submit  to  them  they  must  do 
it  by  compulsion,  and  with  the  addition  of  tines,  imprison- 
ment, Avhipping,  &v.,  &c. 

1  am  Sir,  your  Humble  Ser\\ant,         G.  Joiionxot. 

Timo.  Laugdon,  Es«|." 

This  li  (tei-  is  written  in  a  fair,  even  hand,  and  directed  to 
"Timothy  Laugdon,  Esquire,  Stillwater." 

Col.  Johonnot  died  in  Hampden,  Oct.  20,  1820—72.  His 
will  Oct.  5,  1820,  jiroved  iMarch  (i,  1821,  Avas  witnessed  by 
John  Abbot,  John  Godfrey  and  Sarah  Crosby. 


08 

Comnioiiwcaltli  of  Mussiicliusotts, 

IVuobscot,  April  2:'.,  1<»V. 
The  Deposition  of  Jerenuah  Colbuiu  of  Pe.ol.seot  Kiver 
J^  «  of  Lincoln,  Uentlc.an,  on  oath  test.t.th  .^ 

,    .  1  ,>nt  ih<.  -^Sth  Day  of  November,   1<<<> 

c.oWii    tli'it  on  or  abont  uie  zoiu  i"i^      ^  ,,   ,       i 

,,„  a„  lsl:..,a  .,lK.d  ,u,a  known  Ucc  l,y  the  n,,n,         M    .1.. 
Inland  and  ,«.k  np  and  «>t,lod  on  a  Certan,  I-'  'f         |,    ' 
A  Farm  for  himself;  ^v•lm■l.  lot  ineludos  a  nnll  P-no^o. 
TW  «>  or  about  the  Last  of  May.  17«4,  Moss-  Levy  Bud- 

ky  j"  oph  Moro  and  Daniel  Jenn.on,  all  of  Vono l.scot  n 
IdC  nnty.Did  then  and  thc-o  a...vo  with  the  s,ud  John 

M  H        1    iW  H  Saw  mill  npon  the  .  l-nvelidgo  n.eUnled  m 

wiWn  the  Lotwhieh   the   ..  John   ,.ad  Settle  as  aton.ald. 

!,:!;  ihe  s.  Levy.  Joseph  and  1^--.^";1'''\-'^;  ■;«;-.  :  '^^ 

...Marsh  to  Keli„.,nish  to  '"'"  "-,;;'';  ;,;,,' ty^lnUt 
immiediatelv  after  tinished  in  the  mill  AMncn  uu^ 
^;   Conditions  that  the  said  Marsh  should  Kehn^msh  10 
^^s  of  Land  included  .vithin  said  Lot  so  as  to  mdude  sa 
t;ri>:viled,e  and  upon  the  t^wr  conditio.  lx.ig  .        c^ 
uDon  the  s'l  Levy,  Joseph  and  Daniels  Part.     Then  the  s 
Xh  was  to  give  A  Deed  of  s.l  10  ae^s  as  so^as^-^^^ 

tained  a  Deed  from  Government.  Jkuk-v"  Co^hl un  . 

Lincoln,  ss.—Pi'iiobseot,  April  23,  1< 87. 
"    eleremiah  Colburn  Personally  Appeared  and  made 
oath  to  the  above  Deposition.  .r  fh..  Peace 

Before  me,  Jonathan  Edov,  Justice  of  the  Peace. 


o. 

Boston,  3  Feb.  1801. 

Dear  Sir  •     I  shall  in  the  first  place  inform  you  that  I  am 

well  Ivnd  also  my  Funnily.     As  to  the  Petition  of  the  Inhu  n- 

tants  of  Eddington  plantation  it  has  been  taken  np  and  Com- 

i^ed  and  tl^y  have  in.t  it  over,  but  I  shall  endea.;or  to 

^ ^it  called  np  again       1  get  the  Business  so  forwarded  as 


6i) 


•87. 

Kiver 
;h  and 

1777, 
Intcrcd 
ai'slic's 
lucl  for 
vclegc. 
f  Brad- 
scot  in 
d  John 
Uded  in 
bro^^aid. 
^vith  tlie 
one  saw 
,o  l)uilt, 
quish  10 
iflude  sa 
;  fuimU'd 
L'n  the  s<^l 
as  lie  ol)- 

LUUUX. 

md  made 
Peace. 


).  1801. 

that  I  am 
he  Inhuhi- 

and  Com- 
idcavor  to 
i-warded  as 


to  have  an  order  of  Notice  if  it  is  Possihle.     I  wish  you  to 
wrio-ht  t(,  me  as  soon  as  you  can  make  it  convenient  and  m- 
form  me  wliether  the  House  of  Mr.    (or  Mrs.)  Clnpp  is  sold 
or  like  to  he  and  whether  it  is  probahle  that  I  can  have  a 
shelter  in  it  next  Spring,  and  if  I  can  not,  whether  there  is 
any  other  House  timt  it  is  likely  I  can  get  for  a  short  tunc, 
till  I  Ihiild.     If  not,  I  must  take  up  my  Quarters  at  Kendus-    • 
keao-.     My  Compliments  to  all  Friends.     A  Letter  directed 
to  me  at  Belch(>r  s  will  reach  me  in  season. 

I  am  Dear  Sir  yours,  Takk  Holland. 

Jona.  Eddy  Esq. 

P. 

"To  all  persons  To  whom   this  Protest  shall  Come,  Know 
ve  th-it  I    W'U'u  Boyd  of  liangor,  in  County  of  Hancock, 
kiipwridit,  on  the   23d  of  April,  1702,  Did  enter  into  Con- 
tract wiih  Doctor  Oliver  Mann  and  Hudson  Bishop,  Both  of 
Penobscot,  (Castine)  in  Said  County,  to  Build  for  them  A 
vessel  of  one  Hundred  tuns  or  thereabouts,  as  will  appear  by 
an  Instrument  By  them  Subscribed,  Baring  Date  as  Specihed 
ahove,  in  which  Instrument  the  Said  C^'^^er  Mann  and  Hudson 
Bishop  engage  on  their  part  to  furnish  me  with  every  Material 
to  enable  me  to  Carry  on  said  vessel  in  three  weeks  fi-om  the 
.i.te  of  the  above  said  Instrument.     But  to  my  great  Damage 
ihey  have  not  furnished  me  with  SutHcient  Timber  and  oth-r 
necessaries  according  to  said  Contract  to  C^irry  on  said  work. 
Wheref(>re  I,  the  Said  Boyd,  hereby  protest  against  the  pro- 
c-^ediiK^s  of  said  Mann   and   Bishop,  and   against  all  Costs, 
Delay.'',  Detentions,   or  any  Damage  of  any  name  or  nater 
that  I  may  Receive  or  Sustain  thereby.     Wlu.-eunto  I  have 

Set  my  hand  this  25th  day  of  June,  171)2. 

^  WlLL^I  Bovi), 

and  carpenters  that  wrought  on  said  vessel, 

Jamks  Boyd, 
William  Patten, 

UOBEllT    CAMrBELL." 


70 
Q. 

Dr.  William  Waro  was  sou  of  John'  and  Mohotahle 
(Chapin)  Ware  of  AVrentham,  IMass.,  boru  July  4,  l(Ji»7. 
First  wife  was  Zobiah  S^veotin^^  daughter  of  Lewis  aud 
Zehiah  Sweetiug,  married  Oct.,  30,  1728  ;  She  died  Nov.  1, 
1732.     Secoud  wife,  Auua  Hodges,  Sept.  27,  1733  ;  she  died 

Juno  35,  1755,  aged  51.     Third  wife,  Lydia -.     172!), 

Feb.  19,  he  l)ought  a  iarm  of  John  Finney,  in  Norton.  1734, 
he  was  admitted  to  chureh  in  Norton  from  Wrentham.  1742, 
Avifc  Anna  iuhnitted  to  chureh  in  Norton. 

He  was  a  'Tractioncr  of  Physic"  for  several  years,  and 
kept  a  pul.lic  house  from  1728  to  1740.     In  1750,  Nov.  24, 
he  sold  out  and  moved  to  Dighton,  where  he  died.     His  grave 
stone  says,  "Dr.  William  Ware,  died  June  11,  17()4,  aged  G7 
years  lacking    22    days."     Second  wife's   grave  stone  says, 
"Ann..,  wife  of  Dr.  A^'illiam   AVare,  departed  this  life  Juno 
25,  1755,  aged  50  years,  4  months  and  21  days."     1704,  his 
will  in  Bristol  County  Records,  names  wife  Lydia  ;  Children- 
William,    George,    Benjamin,     :\Iary   Eddy,    Lucy   Talbot, 
Abigail,  Lydia.     His  children  were  : 
Mary,  b.  Oct.  10.  172!»;  m.  f'apt.  .Toiiatliau  Eddy. 
Lucy;  m.  Xathanicl  Talljol.  .h\ 
William.  April  27.  17;il. 
John.  Ocl.  ->;!.  17:5-';  diod  27  Oct..  17.'52. 
Gooro'o.  Auirust  'iii.  17:i4,  "a  Munday  about  suuriso."' 
Bcujiuniu.  >Iarch  ■>{).  17:{G-7.  -a  Sabbath  day  cvcniiio'." 
Anna.  .Tuly  10.  1741.  ••bcin-v  a  Friday  about  suuscttiug;"*  died  •2't  Sept., 
1741.    Joseph,  !">{].     Lydia,  17r)8.        Al»igail,  1700. 


[Copy.]  "  A  Beturn  of  the  Beingees  of  Nova  Scotia,  avIio 
left  that  Province  in  the  year  177(1,  with  their  former  and 
present  places  of  Residence  in  the  United  States  or  Else- 
where, June,  1785  : 

j^j^^ipg.  Former  Residence.  Now  Resident. 

1  Jonathan  Eddy.  Ma.ssachusctts,  Mass. 

2  Capt.  Zcbulou  Kowe,  do  do 

3  Colo.  IMiinca.s  Nevcrs,  do  do 

4  Mr.  Ebeuezer  Oarner,  (Gardner)  do  do 


71 


says, 


Names. 
fj  Mr.  William  Maxwell, 
(i  Anthony  Buvk. 

7  Tlionias  I-'alUncr, 

8  Mr.  Hdlti'il  iMtstcr, 
!)  Mv.  William  Howe, 

10  ('apt.  Xatli.  Itcynolds, 

11  Mi'Ut.  BiadCord  ('ariicntor.  (or  C"ar- 
1-2  \lv\.  .Mr.  Nolili'.        pciitcr  Bradford) 
i;{  .loiiat  hail  Eddy,  (Jr.) 

14  Jonatluiu  Xcvors, 

15  WiiliaiM  Kddy. 
l(J  I  brook  Kddy, 
17  KliasEddy, 
IS  ,Tolni  Day. 
1!)  Edward  Colo. 

20  Dr.  Parker  Clark, 

21  Ambrose  {'olc. 

22  Dani(d  'riiorringtou,  (Thornton) 
2;J  Edward  Falkner, 

24  Zcbnlon  Howe.  Jr., 
2.")  John  Eckl'v, 
2<J  Samnei  Sharp, 
27  Matthew  Sharp, 

25  Joseph  Sharj). 
2'J  IJobert  Sharp. 

30  Josiah  Throop, 

31  Jonas  Earle, 

32  Jonas  Earle.  Jr., 

33  Mr.  Daniel  Earle, 

34  l!(»l»ert  Karle, 
3r>  Xath.  Karle. 
3(i  Mr.  Atwood  Fails,  (Fales) 

37  01)adiah  Aver, 

38  ('a[)t.  .lohn  Starr. 

39  Mr.  Elijah  Ayres, 

40  Elijali  Ayer,  Jr.. 

41  Deacon  Simeon  ('h(\*ter. 

42  "'  .lunel  Connor,  (Connover) 

43  Sanuu'l  Fales. 
41  (apt.  Samuel  Ilogers, 
45  tieorge  l!(>jj;ers. 
4(!  Cai)t.  Mr.  Kellhem,  (Aniasa) 

47  John  Kellhem, 

48  David  Jenks. 
(!»  Christoi)lier  I'ain. 
oU  Li<Mit.  James  Avery, 


Formor  Risidorice. 

Now  Itosidcnt. 

Massaeimsetts, 

Mass. 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

r-           do 

do 

urd)        do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

dead. 

do 

do 

dead. 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

dead. 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

dead 

do 

Nova 

S(!otia. 

dead 

Xova  Scotia, 

Mass. 

Tennsylvania, 

do 

do 

dead 

do 

dead 

do 

Fenn. 

do 

Nova 

S(!otia. 

New  York, 

New  Y'ork. 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

ilo 

do 

Conn. 

Mass. 

do 
do 
ilo 
do 


do 
do 


IMiode  Island, 
do 


do 


Conn. 


Conn. 

do 
Mass. 
Conn. 


Mass. 
do 


Mass. 


Mass. 


dead. 


dead. 


dead, 
dead, 
dead. 


dead. 


72 


NaraoP. 

51  .Tolm  Allan. 

52  Hdwanl  lliiiidsom.  (llaiiipsoii) 
5:5  .lolui  Fiiltoii. 

51  Jolui  M(;(jl(>\vii, 
o.")  Nalli.  (rawfonl, 
5(i  ,)()lm  Sihlry, 

57  Mr.  (n-i'tli. 

58  John  SU'wanl. 

5!)  Lewis  lA'Dcniit'r, 

GO  Davurrrffcril.  Cr<"nill) 

01  Thus.  Tiinii)iill. 


Former  Rcsiilonco.        Now  Rosidont, 
Nova  Scotia. 


do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 


dead. 


Nova  Scotia. 
Mass. 
Nova  Sfotia. 
Conn. 
Nova  Scotia, 
do 
Mass. 
do 
Oii-l<i>o\vii. 


Tho  .ithin  are  those  ^vho  Mi  the  Pn.vtnce  ot  Jsova  Scotia 
i„  177(> ;  the  ro.naini.t-  part  of  the  sixty-throe  persons  I  can- 
n„t  as<-ertain,  either  their  Names  or  pUiees  ct  Al.ode.^         ^^ 

JOXA.    hDDY. 

Ool  Eddy  was  indetatioabk.  iu  his  etlc.rts  to  obtain  grants 
of  httid  innn  Cottgress  and  Massaehttsetts  tbr  the  vetttgces 
fi-cm  Nova  Seotia.  lie  made  many  jonrneys  and  looked  at 
several  traets  of  land  before  settling  dow.i  at  what  is  now 
Eddim'ton,  Me.  I  give  a  copy  of  liis  aeeonnt,  cV:c.  : 
r;.' .."una  of  ..a.h  h.;.  on,  and  othov  supplies  to.  the  propnetors  s.nce 

the  vcar  and  in  that  year  l-M. 
To  one  petition  t^.v  (.he"  next  ..n-d  is  obscnvo  bnt   I  call  it.     .r.  w.  r.) 
i;rMndMananandjoMrneyt<.l"okat  It.  ^^^     ^^     ^ 

Mv  lime  in  that  journey.  ;<7  days.  ,,,,  1.)    T,     7 

Toon.:other,ion,-ueytoCon,ress.cxponsesoahatjounu.yn.ea.h.l.    1.     7 

Mv  time  and  horse.  ;n  days. 

r      1  ,,,,1 -It  I'eiiolxeot  and  ionrnev  to  look  it  out. 
Toone  pelUion  t.>r  land  at  I mooMoi  auu.i  .  ^^     ^^     ^ 

l-J.   ,,„i,i ....I  liy -Ml-. ■n.."".i'.i'^^"""'-i*) '"■""'»»*■  -J  ;',   0 

•J  chain  men.                                                                                    .,  ^^  q 

2  more  men  as  waiters.                                                                     3  0  0 

to  snow  shoes  and  moeasins.                                                          '^  ^^  ^ 

to  provisions  for  -aid  men.  ^^  ^ 
petition  to  Conjircss. 

My  expense  a,    Moston  and  waitinj.  at  Boston  ou  the  Cveruor,  ^  ^^  ^ 

»     *     »     letters  to  Congress.  

£1(C)       1     7 

;57    10    0  ■■ 


17VH). 


Interest  on  the  aliove 


T.ur.  ^.anaJrhZ^^^h^^^^^^'^''' '■>-■'  "'  KcUliu-ton,  1794. 


■"■'ai 


idont. 

dead, 
ia. 

[la. 

III. 
lia. 

ss. 

I) 

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